Casa, familia, heredad. La colección fotográfica de caseríos vascos de Fr. Pedro de Madrid, 1912

Abstract

This paper seeks to highlight the photographic collection of Basque farmhouses of Baztan Valley (Navarra) that, under the motto Echezarra (Old House), was awarded in the Photographic- Social Competition held in 1912 in Pamplona, emphasizing its unpublished nature and its remarkable artistic, documentary and ideological value; not in vain, the images combine in harmony farmhouse, family and estate, to create a superb testimony of lifestyles in Baztan Valley of a Century ago, participating fully in the arcadic vision of the values embodied by the Basque farmer, far from reality but deeply rooted in the traditional thinking of the time. And, at the same time, it wants to highlight the virtually unknown figure of its author, Fr. Pedro de Madrid (Pedro Satue), Capuchin Friar started in the photographic techniques in the Convent of Lekaroz for, secularized once, develop the profession in the Studio that he opened in Madrid, where he specialized in artistic portrait.