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Tag: Recoleta Cemetery

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Statuary Portraits, Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Posted on July 3, 2016October 29, 2020

Designed by a French engineer Próspero Catelin, the Recoleta Cemetery is Buenos Aire’s most compelling tourist attraction. Mirroring the sprawling metropolis outside the large stonewalls of the Recoleta, over 6,400 statues, stone coffins, and burial vaults are crammed into the labyrinthine 14-acre cemetery. Opened in 1822, tall concrete, marble, and black granite mausoleums in every…

Angel Morning, Recoleta, Asuncion, Paraguay

Luminances, the Ceramic Portraits of the Recoleta Cemetery, Asunción, Paraguay

Posted on May 21, 2016October 29, 2020

Angel, Recoleta Cemetery, Asunción, Paraguay Photographs possess the remarkable ability to close distances of time and space and bring forward the person, place, or thing which stood before the lens. Referred to as “photography’s transparency,” this quality remains photography’s most distinctive feature.[1] In 1843, shortly after the appearance of the first photographs, Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning…

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