Zaragoza à Pamplona y Barcelona - Puente de Zuera ca. 1867 Juan Laurent French Beginning in the late 1850s, Laurent worked for the Spanish photographic agency Gerónimo. During thirty-five years of operation in Madrid, the firm produced some 20,000 photographs-a vast archive of Spanish art, architecture, and industrial photograph, originally part of an album that documented the Zaragoza-Pamplona-Barcelona railway line, depicts a bridge spanning the dry bed of the Gállego River at Zuera, a desolate locale situated north of Zaragoza. Tight framing and dramatic foreshortening resu
Zaragoza à Pamplona y Barcelona - Puente de Zuera ca. 1867 Juan Laurent French Beginning in the late 1850s, Laurent worked for the Spanish photographic agency Gerónimo. During thirty-five years of operation in Madrid, the firm produced some 20,000 photographs-a vast archive of Spanish art, architecture, and industrial photograph, originally part of an album that documented the Zaragoza-Pamplona-Barcelona railway line, depicts a bridge spanning the dry bed of the Gállego River at Zuera, a desolate locale situated north of Zaragoza. Tight framing and dramatic foreshortening result in an image as geometrically conceived as the impressive technology that is represented. A tiny human presence, positioned at the far end of the bridge, emphasizes the imposing span and scale of this modern engineering Zaragoza à Pamplona y Barcelona - Puente de Zuera 282751
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