Toni Catany (1942-2013) was a Catalan photographer. Catany was born in

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. His work is included in collections of the

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, the

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, Madrid, and the

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Biography

Self-taught, he arrived in Barcelona in 1960 to begin his studies in chemical sciences. There he began his career as a photographer doing travel reports. However, from the very beginning, he opted for themes far removed from

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, and in 1972 he held his first exhibition. In 2023 the Centre Internacional de Fotografia Toni Catany was inaugurated in his hometown.

References

1942 births 2013 deaths 20th-century Spanish photographers 21st-century Spanish photographers {{Europe-photographer-stub