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What we now know about Felix Laureano leads also to some potentially interesting speculations: did he have a role in the Propaganda movement?
Drawing to a close on August 31, the “Bugasong to Barcelona” exhibit at the National Museum for the Western Visayas is the longest-running non-permanent exhibit in the city, having opened in August 2022. And deservedly so. The exhibit features the works of Felix Laureano, now acclaimed as the first Filipino photographer, who in the late 1880s until around 1910, had photo studios in Iznart Street in Iloilo, Barcelona , and British India.
It also has what might be the very first photos of the Ati-Atihan and the Sinulog, though Laureano isn’t impressed with the dancing and the rhythms. With its vivid descriptions of people, places, rituals, customs, and day-to-day events, it can be considered also a work of linguistics, geography, social history, and anthropology. It may also be the first ever “coffee table” book on Las Islas Filipinas.
Each summer thereafter, between volunteering trips at Santiago de Compostela, there were inevitable pilgrimages to towns and places where Laureano may have lived, or had descendants, such as Oton and Bugasong in Antique. By mid-2015, with the support of the UP Visayas Center for Culture and the Arts, and the Center for West Visayan Studies he mounted an exhibit on the Laureano works titled “Bugasong to Barcelona.
Mainly through Frank’s sleuthing and Maria Felguera’s work, it was established that Felix Laureano was born in 1866 in Patnongon, Antique and grew up there. His parents were Norverta Laureano de los Santos, , a widowed and prosperous businesswoman, and the parish priest, Manuel Asensio, an Augustinian. Felix had five other siblings, one of whom later became mayor of Bugasong, Antique. The children would have adapted their mother’s family name.
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