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It was in portrait photography that Miyar best expressed her artistic vision, played with compositions and created a story. Her work included postcard positives recreating traditional roles in apparently improvised settings. After developing a print, she added a few touch-ups with colored pencils or
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Civil Guard. After the guerrillas were defeated in the 1950s, Miyar was allowed to return to her watchmaking workshop and photography studio to earn a living although she remained very poor. After her cousin Ismael, a political resister, returned home after serving six years in Franco's prison, she
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As a young girl, she began working in her father's workshop, making and repairing clocks. At the same time, she became a self-taught photographer “by reading magazines,” opening her own studio next to the watchmaking workshop. According to Pantín
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for treatment, and returning to Corao shortly before her death on 7 August 1961. After she died, "most of her negatives were thrown into the river" and her life was largely forgotten until the 2020 documentary was released.
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in 1936, Miyar became a member of the anti-fascist resistance, a republican. When national troops entered Corao, she guarded her father's workshop to prevent looting by the soldiers.
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pen and ink to these works. Through these photographs, Miyar explored her immediate world and preserved it, but when she died, some of her work was lost.
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by Celia Viada Caso was released in which Celia Viada Caso, the director, in her first feature film, recounts Miyar's life and work. She received the
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