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\u00a9Juan Amaya. Montserrat, 1958<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.26″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26″]Jacques L\u00e9onard, (Paris, 1909 \u2013 L\u2019Escala, 1994)<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Jacques L\u00e9onard was 43 years old when he definitively moved to Barcelona to work as a professional photographer.\u00a0\u00a0 His lifestyle ended up taking him across the world as a result of his different activities.<\/p>\n He was the son of a Roma horse dealer and the owner of a needlework workshop in Paris, and he got involved in the cinema world at a young age. In 1931<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0he started working by taking on commissions in certain Parisian studios before later working on film editing and production tasks collaborating with different directors including Abel Gance.<\/p>\n 1940.<\/span><\/strong> He travelled to Spain searching for locations for a film about Christopher Columbus which fell through due to the war in Europe. He met the then director of cinematography who offered him the opportunity to work on different tasks and he stayed in Madrid. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.<\/p>\n 1949.<\/strong><\/span> He moved to Barcelona with the theatre entrepreneur Arthur Kaps, becoming his right-hand man.\u00a0 Later, far removed from film, he made a living restoring furniture. 1952.<\/span><\/strong> He moved to Barcelona where he fell in love with Rosario Amaya, a Roma woman who worked as an artist’s model. He married Amaya and started working as a freelance photographer.<\/p>\n …[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ specialty=”on” _builder_version=”3.26″ custom_margin=”-51px|||||” custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26″]Francesc Catal\u00e0-Roca gave him contacts and tasks in different media outlets:\u00a0La Vanguardia, La Gaceta Ilustrada, Pomezia,\u00a0<\/em>the publication of the Bishopric of Barcelona,\u00a0Sant Jordi<\/em>, the journal of the Provincial Council of Barcelona, and he set up his own lab working on advertising photography.<\/p>\n 1975.<\/strong><\/span> After Barcelona’s Roma neighbourhoods were dismantled, L\u00e9onard moved to La Mina and left photography behind due to health problems, working on a book about Roma culture, Les quatre fers en l\u2019air.<\/em> The project remained unpublished in spite of the initial interest from the Plon publishing house in Paris which specialised in ethnology.<\/p>\n 1991.<\/span><\/strong> With serious health problems, he moved to L’Escala, where he died in 1994<\/strong><\/span>.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ specialty_columns=”2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_row_inner column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”3.26″][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.26″][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/jacquesleonard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/C2C_0002_0574.jpg” _builder_version=”3.26″ custom_margin=”||6px|||”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26″ min_height=”7px”]\u00a9Self Portrait, ca.\u00a0<\/em>1960[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.26″][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/jacquesleonard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Autor-desconegut-ca.-1940.jpeg” _builder_version=”3.26″ custom_margin=”||6px|||”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26″ min_height=”7px”]\u00a9 Author and location unknown, ca. <\/i>1940<\/span>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.26″][et_pb_fullwidth_image _builder_version=”3.26″ background_image=”http:\/\/jacquesleonard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Muntant-pel%C2%B7licula.-ca-1940-e1567429097579.jpeg” parallax=”on” min_height=”220px” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”50px||889px||false|false”][\/et_pb_fullwidth_image][et_pb_fullwidth_header _builder_version=”3.26″ background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” min_height=”105px” custom_padding=”3px||0px|||”]<\/p>\n \u00a9Autor and location unknown<\/span>. Splicing film. ca.<\/em> 1940<\/span><\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a9Juan Amaya. Montserrat, 1958Jacques L\u00e9onard, (Paris, 1909 \u2013 L\u2019Escala, 1994)\u00a0Jacques L\u00e9onard was 43 years old when he definitively moved to Barcelona to work as a professional photographer.\u00a0\u00a0 His lifestyle ended up taking him across the world as a result of his different activities. 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\nHe met the comedian Robert Lamouret and worked as his secretary on a world tour. He accompanied Lamouret to England, Australia, Greece and Italy. At the end of the tour he declined the opportunity to travel to the United States.<\/p>\n