Miami – Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Museum of Art + Design (MOA+D) and the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives have received a major donation of photographs from Agencia EFE, the world’s leading Spanish-language news agency. The donation consists of more than 75 photographs from EFE: 75 Years of History, an exhibition celebrating the agency’s 75 years, which are now part of MDC’s permanent collection.
The Museum and Wolfson Archives will provide access to the images in a collaborative manner, including a very special exhibition, 75 Years of EFE Images: Wars, Triumphs, Disasters, People and Politics in February 18, 2016 at MDC’s historic Freedom Tower. The exhibition will include photographs of Ibero-American and world history and features images of historic importance, such as the meeting between Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler at the start of World War II, Princess Diana, Martin Luther King, as well as photos of Celia Cruz, Cantinflas and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The collection will continue to grow, as the agency donates a historically significant photograph that encapsulates the most important headline of each year. Additional details about the exhibition will be announced later this year.
“It is timely in nature that the Museum presents a formal exhibition of its extensive collection and holdings through dedicated collection galleries,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, MOA+D’s executive director and chief curator. “Miami Dade College has been collecting art for more than 50 years and has a long tradition of acquiring engaging and important works of art and design. As an actively collecting institution, we are excited to bring this important aspect of the Museum to the public.”
EFE was born in 1939 in a Spain devastated by the Civil War and began its expansion in the Americas in 1966 with the opening of its first bureaus in the region. Today, EFE operates in 180 cities in 120 countries, employing more than 3,000 news professionals from 60 nationalities. The exhibition EFE: 75 Years of History has traveled to countries such as Portugal, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Puerto Rico, Colombia and Argentina.
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