[Leica] IMG: a day in Madrid

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

As usual an interesting guide.

My picks would be:

http://www.frozenlight.eu/madrid_aug2019/content/20190823-_DSF4719_large.html

http://www.frozenlight.eu/madrid_aug2019/content/20190823-_DSF4818_large.html

http://www.frozenlight.eu/madrid_aug2019/content/20190823-_DSF4816_large.html

Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:06 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> On Friday I spent the day in Madrid, out on the 7:14 train, home on the
> 21:15 train, giving me just about 12 hours to walk around Madrid. The main
> purpose was to visit an exhibition of 17th century Dutch and Spanish
> paintings at the Prado, consisting of 72 works from Prado’s own collection,
> supplemented with loans from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and other Dutch
> museums. The idea was to highlight the remarkable similarity between Dutch
> and Spanish painters, even in cases where they had never met nor seen each
> other’s paintings, such a Vermeer and Velázquez. Art historians have
> traditionally emphasized the uniqueness of Dutch painting following the
> establishment of the Netherlands as an independent state in 1648. This
> exhibition puts paid to that idea.
>
> In addition, the PhotoEspaña photography festival is currently going on,
> with interesting photo exhibitions all over Madrid. I had chosen four
> exhibitions to visit, but two of them were at the Casa de América which
> turned out to be closed for vacation, so I had to make do with two. But one
> of them was a real gem, a very complete exhibition of works by Berenice
> Abbott. I was not really familiar with her work until now—she was truly a
> remarkable woman and photographer.
>
> And of course I walked around the city a lot, taking lunch at the Mercado
> de San Miguel near Plaza Mayor, and spending an hour in the Parque del Buen
> Retiro, probably the nicest park in any big city. Think of it as Central
> Park but with a couple of art galleries, numerous bars and lots of
> beautiful fountains.
>
> August is actually a great month to visit Madrid; it can be hot, sure, but
> on the other hand half of Madrid’s population is at the seaside (many in
> Alicante where I live), traffic is light, so the air is clean, and the
> metro is uncrowded.
>
> Fifty-five images are here:
>
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/madrid_aug2019/index.html
>
> And as always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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