The exhibition opens on Tuesday 16th July at 7.30 p.m. in the auditorium of Can Victori in Maó.

This summer the Arxiu d’Imatge i So de Menorca is presenting an exhibition on the clothing worn by Menorcans and Menorcans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, 16th July, at 7:30 pm in the auditorium of Can Victori in Maó.

The Arxiu d’Imatge i So de Menorca has collected images of our island since the arrival of photography. The presentations show what Menorca and its people were like and how they have changed over time. This exhibition aims to show how the island people dressed a hundred years ago and more, based on the oldest photographs kept by the AISM.

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The Arxiu d’Imatge i So de Menorca presents ‘LA MODA D’ANTANY

The exhibition aims to show the clothing worn at that time and discover whether these people followed the fashions of the time. For this reason, the aim is to review what was worn in Spain and Europe and to see if it was to be found in the portraits of Menorca from the last decades of the 19th century and the first twenty years of the 20th century.

Most of the photographs in which it is possible to see how they dressed and whether they followed the fashion of the time are studio portraits and show wealthy and bourgeois people. People of lesser means could not afford certain models and could not even have their portraits taken. You can also see how people dressed to go to work, and you will see that the photographs were taken outside at the time of work and in slightly different clothing.

The exhibition, produced entirely by the Arxiu d’Imatge i So, brings together 32 photographs grouped on different panels. On the one hand, studio photographs taken by professionals from the island’s photographic studios, such as Joan Femenías, Gilberto Casteret and Francesc Adrover, among others; on the other hand, those taken by amateur photographers, such as Salvador Almirall, Diego Monjo and Antoni Roca Várez.

A programme of activities is being drawn up in parallel to the exhibition, which will be disseminated when it is finished. The exhibition will remain open until the end of the year during the opening hours of the Arxiu d’Imatge i So de Menorca (summer opening hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.).