1. El Riachuelo - 1938-1940

    El Riachuelo - 1938-1940

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    Mercedes Sosa - Balderrama

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  7. In 1972, Julio Cortázar published a small book called Prosa del Observatorio(Barcelona: Lumen), about his visit to the 18th century observatory built by the Indian Maharaja Jai Singh  in Jaipur.  Last year, the non-profit publisherArchipelago Books unearthed this little time capsule and released it in English translation for the first time as From the Observatory.  Cortázar’s text is a strangely beautiful prose poem in the guise of an essay, using the fabulous architecture of the astronomical observatory as the launching point for a text that twists and flows through time and space.  Accompanying his text are nearly forty of his own photographs, disorienting images in which light and shadow sculpt the monumental astronomical structures into architectural and landscape fantasies that seem to emanate from the stories of Borges or the frames of Last Year at Marienbad. To Cortázar, Jai Singh was “a guerrilla of the absolute,” more explorer than scientist.  He was a small-time Maharaja who stood up to more powerful figures, a man who turned to astronomy in order to avoid the “astrological fatality that guided his lineage.”   But instead of “organizing the cold chaos,” as Cortázar put it, Jai Singh engaged “in a slow, interminable copulation with a sky.” I know Jai Singh was with us, on the side of the eel tracing his planetary ideogram in the darkness that distresses the hair-pulling science…Jai Singh knows that a thirst quenched with water will return to torment him, Jai Singh knows that only by becoming water himself will he stop feeling thirsty.

    In 1972, Julio Cortázar published a small book called Prosa del Observatorio(Barcelona: Lumen), about his visit to the 18th century observatory built by the Indian Maharaja Jai Singh  in Jaipur.  Last year, the non-profit publisherArchipelago Books unearthed this little time capsule and released it in English translation for the first time as From the Observatory.  Cortázar’s text is a strangely beautiful prose poem in the guise of an essay, using the fabulous architecture of the astronomical observatory as the launching point for a text that twists and flows through time and space.  Accompanying his text are nearly forty of his own photographs, disorienting images in which light and shadow sculpt the monumental astronomical structures into architectural and landscape fantasies that seem to emanate from the stories of Borges or the frames of Last Year at Marienbad. To Cortázar, Jai Singh was “a guerrilla of the absolute,” more explorer than scientist.  He was a small-time Maharaja who stood up to more powerful figures, a man who turned to astronomy in order to avoid the “astrological fatality that guided his lineage.”   But instead of “organizing the cold chaos,” as Cortázar put it, Jai Singh engaged “in a slow, interminable copulation with a sky.”

    I know Jai Singh was with us, on the side of the eel tracing his planetary ideogram in the darkness that distresses the hair-pulling science…Jai Singh knows that a thirst quenched with water will return to torment him, Jai Singh knows that only by becoming water himself will he stop feeling thirsty.

  8.  Man in Traditional Gaucho Attire Riding Horseback as Another Flirts with Woman During Creole Week

     Man in Traditional Gaucho Attire Riding Horseback as Another Flirts with Woman During Creole Week

  9. Subte Linea A is considered the tourist epitome in every guidebook of Buenos Aires. I guess, back in the good old days when Argentina was unimaginably rich this was one of the most comfortable and elegant public transportation lines in the world. This picture shows some details of the historical wooden interior of Linea A which is in use since the Roaring Twenties. Nowadays, riding this subway line isn’t so pleasant anymore. It is making a loud clattering sound when running, but still, it’s fun. It is definitely one of the most authentic tourist attractions in Buenos Aires.

    Subte Linea A is considered the tourist epitome in every guidebook of Buenos Aires. I guess, back in the good old days when Argentina was unimaginably rich this was one of the most comfortable and elegant public transportation lines in the world. This picture shows some details of the historical wooden interior of Linea A which is in use since the Roaring Twenties. Nowadays, riding this subway line isn’t so pleasant anymore. It is making a loud clattering sound when running, but still, it’s fun. It is definitely one of the most authentic tourist attractions in Buenos Aires.

  10. legrandcirque: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1940s

    legrandcirque:

    Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1940s

  11. legrandcirque: Buenos Aires, 1900

    legrandcirque:

    Buenos Aires, 1900

  12. legrandcirque: Buenos Aires, 1900

    legrandcirque:

    Buenos Aires, 1900

  13. legrandcirque: Sunbathers enjoying an Argentine beach resort. Photograph by Dmitri Kessel. Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 1958.

    legrandcirque:

    Sunbathers enjoying an Argentine beach resort. Photograph by Dmitri Kessel. Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 1958.

  14. legrandcirque: A young girl wearing a mantilla, emerging from church. Photograph by Leonard McCombe. Cordoba, Argentina, 1964.

    legrandcirque:

    A young girl wearing a mantilla, emerging from church. Photograph by Leonard McCombe. Cordoba, Argentina, 1964.

  15. legrandcirque: Patrons of a sidewalk cafe spending Sunday afternoon sipping coffee. Photograph by Leonard McCombe. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1964.

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    Patrons of a sidewalk cafe spending Sunday afternoon sipping coffee. Photograph by Leonard McCombe. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1964.