The historic photojournalist Horacio Seguíwho portrayed the sports, music, film and politics world of Barcelona in the second half of the 20th century, died this Thursday in the Catalan capital at 93 years, family sources have reported. Among other people, Horacio Seguí photographed the Beatles, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Tom Jones, Montserrat Caballé, Julio Iglesias, Joan Manuel Serrat, Raimon, Lluis Llach, Josep Tarradellas and Joan Fuster, as well as most of the FC players Barcelona of the time, like the Dutchman Johann Cruyff.
Precisely, last year Seguí recognized in a letter that one of the iconic photographs of the so-called ‘impossible goal’ that Cruyff scored against Atlético de Madrid in the 1973-74 season, which until then had been attributed to him, was actually captured by his brother Rafa, also a photographer, who at that time worked for an agency owned by Horacio. FC Barcelona acquired Horacio Seguí’s subfund in 2006, which collects the history of FC Barcelona in images from 1963 to 2003 and which is deposited in the Center of Club Documentation and Studies The club has expressed its condolences through its account on the social network X.
During this time he accumulated around 250,000 Barça-themed photographs, images that appeared in numerous serial publications and monographs, including Barça Magazine and Barcelonista Magazine. Born in the Catalan capital in 1930, at the age of 16 Horacio Seguí joined the Banco Hispano Americano as a bellman while doing other small jobs, one of which led to his hobby for photography. There were years of study and practice of image development and enlargement processes, which he did self-taught through specialized magazines, and which helped him carry out orders from colleagues and the Hispamer club, which led him to also collaborate with the Mosaico Musical magazine starting in 1959.
In 1963 he left the bank to dedicate himself completely to graphic information and requested entry into the Official Registry of Journalists, which was denied by the Ministry of Information and Tourism. Despite this, he continued working for a Eusebio Suárez’s magazine chain in Madrid, which published weekly publications such as Sábado Graphico, Discóbolo or Velocity.
During its first period, specialized in music photography and captured images of major festivals, such as San Remo, Mediterráneo or Eurovision, he took photographs of countless concerts, one of them the legendary one offered by the Beatles in 1965 in the Plaza Monumental in Barcelona, and portrayed singers for the covers of their albums. He also dedicated himself to sports photography, following the Catalan football and basketball teams, as well as cycling, rugby, swimming and water polo competitions.
He complemented these specialties with other topics, such as the political events of the Transition and the demonstrations and strikes of that time. Horacio Seguí was founder of the National Association of Graphic Press Reportersof which he was president in Catalonia from 1978 to 1989 and member of the National Board until 1987. Subsequently, in 1992 the ANIGP became the Associació d’Informadors Gràfics de Premsa i TV de Catalunya, which he presided over until its dissolution.
His work has been exhibited at the Palau de la Virreina, at the Colet Museum, at the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya and at the Barça Museum. Throughout her career she received different awards and recognitions, such as the 1976, 1977 and 1981 Motor Show awards for works published in the magazine Velocity.
Source: Lasexta
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