- Intimate Dalí: work, festivals and human relations as seen by Joan Vehí.

First edition: December 2003

Second edition: October 2007

Available in Catalan, Spanish, English, and French

DALÍ INTIMATE On the occasion of the celebrations of Salvador Dalí's centenary in Cadaqués, nothing is more suggestive than to propose an approach to the essence of the character, through a unique and unrepeatable testimony: Dalí through the lens of Joan Vehí. Although we can count on many photographers throughout the artist's life, including the most prestigious and world-renowned; none of them possessed the freedom, spontaneity and even authority that Dalí placed in Joan Vehí so that he could walk through the house in Cadaqués and the castle of Púbol, and thus, on any occasion, immortalize in snapshots different sequences of the genius's life, since Joan Vehí was not a stranger in the Dalí's family environment, but one more of those in the house; he was the carpenter and trusted man who, like Emlili Puignau or Arturo Caminada, Dalí used to show the paintings he painted and then ask them what they saw; therefore, it is understandable that seeing Joan Vehí walk continuously with carpenter's tools in his hand or the camera around his neck did not surprise anyone. And this is undoubtedly the added value of the images captured by Joan Vehí and that, at the same time, make them exceptional, since they almost always show Dalí at home, in normality, without posing for the photographer, something that has hardly been achieved by any other of the renowned photographers who turned the photo shoots into a whole event to show a Dalí, but in no case the intimate Dalí, as Joan Vehí does.

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h3 class="ql-align-justify"> This is how Joan Vehí's photographs are always a mirror that reflects Salvador Dalí's life in intimacy: work, parties, human relationships... in short, he reveals the most authentic Dalí, the one who for those who knew and treated him defines him as the real Dalí or the intimate Dalí.

- Pere Maset Tuègols

ISBN GI15512003

Author Maset Tuègols, Pere (comiss.)

Editorial Museu de Cadaqués, L'Ajuntament, any 2003

Cexhibition format, paperback, 70 pages

Price 16 € , plus shipping cost,