More than one hundred photographs, four audio-visual publications and numerous publications show a tour of the MAN that covers the professional career of Latova from its beginnings as Deputy General Manager of the Ministry of Culture to the present, showing the evolution of archaeological documentation and archaeological diffusion.
Excavations, inventories and exhibitions
Throughout his long professional career, the photographer has done a valuable work of archaeological documentation not only in field works, also with the museum funds in inventory tasks and to illustrate catalogs of exhibitions, because the last objective of this process is the dissemination of knowledge of our heritage.
The exhibition is articulated arround several topics:excavation systems in various lands, including underwater archeology, are at the core of the approach, with a special mention of the sites in charge of Spanish missions in Egypt.
Another outstanding area is the one that deals with the inventory of our rock art, a rigorous record of this fragile heritage of the rocky walls of different corners of the Iberian Peninsula. In the itinerary of the exhibition, a spectacular reproduction (ortho-giga-image) on a 1:1 scale of a part of the ceiling of the Cave of Altamira, in which it is possible to be appraised even the smallest detail of its technique of execution.
Other sections on museum collections are included, among them, the rich collections of the National Archaeological Museum; also on the work of dissemination through various publications, especially in exhibition catalogs. One last section is dedicated to the photographer's look. It shows that the research work is combined with the artistic quality in the work of this photographer with the vocation of an archaeologist.
Technological contribution
Latova has been incorporating leading technical and photographic solutions, such as the use of digital technology, photogrammetry, or three-dimensional scans and multispectral image analysis and the taking of multispectral images, that currently are applied in rock art research projects, restoration, preventive conservation or in the excavation project of Djehuty (Egypt). But even when the tools were very elementary he found the resources to overcome the obstacles.
In memoriam
The exhibition is also a tribute to a whole generation of researchers who, thanks to the impulse of public institutions, have been developing in the last forty years an enormous work of recovery of the heritage. Among them, stands out Miguel Angel Otero, also photographer, partner and friend of Latova since 1980 and recently deceased, to whom the catalog of the exhibition is dedicated.
Excavations, inventories and exhibitions
Throughout his long professional career, the photographer has done a valuable work of archaeological documentation not only in field works, also with the museum funds in inventory tasks and to illustrate catalogs of exhibitions, because the last objective of this process is the dissemination of knowledge of our heritage.
The exhibition is articulated arround several topics:excavation systems in various lands, including underwater archeology, are at the core of the approach, with a special mention of the sites in charge of Spanish missions in Egypt.
Another outstanding area is the one that deals with the inventory of our rock art, a rigorous record of this fragile heritage of the rocky walls of different corners of the Iberian Peninsula. In the itinerary of the exhibition, a spectacular reproduction (ortho-giga-image) on a 1:1 scale of a part of the ceiling of the Cave of Altamira, in which it is possible to be appraised even the smallest detail of its technique of execution.
Other sections on museum collections are included, among them, the rich collections of the National Archaeological Museum; also on the work of dissemination through various publications, especially in exhibition catalogs. One last section is dedicated to the photographer's look. It shows that the research work is combined with the artistic quality in the work of this photographer with the vocation of an archaeologist.
Technological contribution
Latova has been incorporating leading technical and photographic solutions, such as the use of digital technology, photogrammetry, or three-dimensional scans and multispectral image analysis and the taking of multispectral images, that currently are applied in rock art research projects, restoration, preventive conservation or in the excavation project of Djehuty (Egypt). But even when the tools were very elementary he found the resources to overcome the obstacles.
In memoriam
The exhibition is also a tribute to a whole generation of researchers who, thanks to the impulse of public institutions, have been developing in the last forty years an enormous work of recovery of the heritage. Among them, stands out Miguel Angel Otero, also photographer, partner and friend of Latova since 1980 and recently deceased, to whom the catalog of the exhibition is dedicated.
![Aínda sen título. White Letter [#3] to Narelle Jubelin. (Elena Asins · Narelle Jubelin · Anna Turbau). Photograph by Roi Alonso, courtesy of Galería Nordés](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_category_slider_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_narelle-jubellin_carta-aberta_22_2p.webp?h=3b4e7bc7&itok=ALbdeJ3O "Aínda sen título. White Letter [#3] to Narelle Jubelin. (Elena Asins · Narelle Jubelin · Anna Turbau). Photograph by Roi Alonso, courtesy of Galería Nordés")
