JOSÉ MARÍA ALGUERSUARI / THE POWER OF TELE LENSES 2. .

BARCELONA, STARTLING IMAGES

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COLON MONUMENT AND TIBIDABO CHURCH. CANON TELE LENS 600 mm.

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SAGRADA FAMILIA CHURCH. CANON TELE LENS 600 mm.

I was looking for important images taken with tele lenses, far from the Sport and News category. Very quickly came to my mind Jay Maisel and his New York spectacular photos. Maisel is still taking photos there after 45 years. But I decided to try to find someone closer and to speak about José María Alguersuari. This Barcelona born photographer came from Sports Photography, and was one of the pioneers in using long focal length teles with large apertures. However, he changed Sport for a more generic kind of photo, and applied his knowledge of tele lenses to get very creative images with surprising views. The Colón statue, the Tibidabo and the Sagrada Familia churches were already photographed, for La Vanguardia Magazine, between the end of the eighties and the beginning of the nineties. In these images the photographer uses with great skill the flattening effect of the tele lenses.

TORRE AGBAR. ZOOM CANON 35-350 ZOOM (CONVERSION FACTOR 1,6)

José María still works as you can see in this Torre Agbar picture taken just a year ago.

Alguersuari also writtes about PHOTOGRAPHY and has published two books in Spanish: "Álbum de fotografía práctica" and recently the amusing "Diarios de Fotografía...y alguna motocicleta". A book you can find in Kowasa, Barcelona.