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Victoria Square. Buenos Aires. Circa 1885.

Gelatin silver print -measures: 17.3 x 21.7 cm / 6.81 x 8.54 in-, sepia toned, with its title at the bottom of it, with the negative intervened. Very good copy. Individual work.


Magnificent view made from the corner of Bolívar and Rivadavia, not only because of the registration of the buildings that surround the current Plaza de Mayo -on two of its flanks-, but also because of the capture of an instant in the daily Buenos Aires bustle. We observe men, women and children passing through the square, in front of the cathedral, crossing the street, and mainly a large crowd of passers-by in front of the old Colón Theater. Those who did not walk were looking for faster means of transport, such as horse-drawn trams, or rental cars parked on the perimeter of the square or already in motion on the tramways, used to avoid the cobblestones. Contrasting with the urban bustle, in the foreground and in the lantern roundabout, a wicker basket of a street vendor that we do not identify.


Regarding the buildings, we observe, from left to right, the Metropolitan Cathedral with its impressive colonnade, the Metropolitan Ecclesiastical Curia, the old Colon Theater and the Government House; on the corner of the square the peculiar cylindrical kiosk and dome like those of Paris. The photograph must be dated shortly after the demolition of La Recova, completed in 1884, and before the palm trees brought from Rio de Janeiro by Sarmiento arrived. The shot was taken from one of the windows of the Police Department -on whose site a few years later the City Hall began to be built- and as we can see from unsuspecting glances, no one noticed the photographer's work.

S.O.IV-OMM

AUTHOR FOTÓGRAFO NO IDENTIFICADO

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