" photos," wrote José Luis García Sánchez 1 - have many things, if they engaged the attention they deserve . " True, old photographs, these endearing black and white photographs, apart from its sentimental value, have for the man today an important cultural value as evidence of the past. As a vehicle of knowledge help us to know how customs evolved, as were the fashion, to what extent has changed the urban fabric and transformed the landscape. I am sure that could be studied in classrooms historical memory of the country, region or country girl, without writing a single line, using only the exhibition of old photographs often sleep the sleep of the righteous in family albums or simple cardboard boxes, waiting for the "hand of snow" oblivion tear them know they are lying.
This introduction is about what I have: A few weeks ago, wandering through the flea market in search an uncertain booty, I stumbled by accident, confused, at the bottom of a can, among many other papers and trinkets, with the photograph, which I reproduce below, where you see three young pedestrians in an urban setting is no doubt that the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca, in a timely fashion and that the car, visible in the background, stand at 30 years of the last century. From the first moment of his vision, I was struck by the character of the right of the photo, the tall young man carrying a book in his hands. Naive or bold,
I thought I recognized in this figure of the writer Jose Bergamin (1895-1983) and rushed to buy it, along with two shirts, for the modest price of 1 €. The following refers to the biography and image archive writer on Google did confirm me in this precipitate trial: Bergamin, disciple and friend of Unamuno, Salamanca had frequent contacts and image of the young writer, aligned with this paragraph, is can not be denied, similar to the youngest of the acquired picture. To make sure of all, I consulted an expert in Bergamin, located through email and, alas, disappointment!, Professor Ivan Cabello from Paris informs me that after having consulted his time with Nigel Dennis "true specialist Bergamín " this " sure that it is not this writer though the hairstyle and facial features are similar ."
Of course I "blindly", without other evidence in the trial of the doctors, but the curiosity that is often the mother of scientific findings, continues to haunt me Who's the dapper young clone Bergamin writer or wannabe, who walks with an air of intellectual fatigued by the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca? "It is their dress and hairstyle to a male fashion of the time? If any of Salamanca or descendant of any of the persons shown in the photograph could give me a clue he would be recognized and my healthy curiosity satisfied. Thanks in advance
This introduction is about what I have: A few weeks ago, wandering through the flea market in search an uncertain booty, I stumbled by accident, confused, at the bottom of a can, among many other papers and trinkets, with the photograph, which I reproduce below, where you see three young pedestrians in an urban setting is no doubt that the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca, in a timely fashion and that the car, visible in the background, stand at 30 years of the last century. From the first moment of his vision, I was struck by the character of the right of the photo, the tall young man carrying a book in his hands. Naive or bold,
I thought I recognized in this figure of the writer Jose Bergamin (1895-1983) and rushed to buy it, along with two shirts, for the modest price of 1 €. The following refers to the biography and image archive writer on Google did confirm me in this precipitate trial: Bergamin, disciple and friend of Unamuno, Salamanca had frequent contacts and image of the young writer, aligned with this paragraph, is can not be denied, similar to the youngest of the acquired picture. To make sure of all, I consulted an expert in Bergamin, located through email and, alas, disappointment!, Professor Ivan Cabello from Paris informs me that after having consulted his time with Nigel Dennis "true specialist Bergamín " this " sure that it is not this writer though the hairstyle and facial features are similar ." Of course I "blindly", without other evidence in the trial of the doctors, but the curiosity that is often the mother of scientific findings, continues to haunt me Who's the dapper young clone Bergamin writer or wannabe, who walks with an air of intellectual fatigued by the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca? "It is their dress and hairstyle to a male fashion of the time? If any of Salamanca or descendant of any of the persons shown in the photograph could give me a clue he would be recognized and my healthy curiosity satisfied. Thanks in advance
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November, 2009
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NOTES 1. José Luis García Sánchez. Culture and Leisure II.17. Graphic report of the history and twentieth century English society. El País. The look of the time, 2006
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