Juan Dolcet Santos. Rompiendo fronteras, más allá del retrato convencional [Juan Dolcet Santos. Breaking borders, beyond the conventional portrait]

Abstract

The research deals with the transfer of the borders of the conventional portrait taking as an example the photographic portraits of Juan Dolcet Santos, author from Madrid who worked between 1951 and 1990. The study of Dolcet’s photographic production allows us to see how the portrait is understood like the photographic representation of a face or the simple physical identification of a subject, it transmutes into a tool through which the photographer / creator makes public what is inside the private world of the subjects photographed, all this speaks to us of the technical capacity, plastic and the author’s visual sensitivity to reflect and synthesize in a single image the character of the subject.