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Spanish impressions (36 images)

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Pictures taken along the way on a trip to Spain, April 2011.

  • Km 0 in Madrid, a big tourist attraction.

  • Indestructible Object, by Man Ray, Queen Sofia Museum in Madrid..The original 1923 readymade measured 26 cm and was titled "Object to Be Destroyed." When the artist's lover, photographer Lee Miller, abandoned him in 1932, he replaced the photograph of the anonymous eye with one of her eyes and renamed the work "Object of Destruction." In 1957 a group of students destroyed the metronome during a Dada exhibition in Paris. The following year, Man Ray planned a multiple edition of one hundred [constructed in 1965) and renamed Ihe readymade "Indestructible Obiect." The work alludes to Ihe puise of sexual desire.

  • Torn posters on a wall.

  • Lottery tickets vendor, Puerta del Sol in Madrid.

  • Street beggar in Madrid.

  • The 1977 Massacre of Atocha was a neo-fascist attack during the Spanish transition to democracy after the death of Franco in 1975, killing five and injuring four. It was committed on January 24, 1977, in an office located on 55 Atocha Street near the Atocha railway station in Madrid, where specialists in labor law, members of the Workers' Commissions trade union (CCOO), and of the then-clandestine Communist Party of Spain (PCE), had gathered. The next day, the massacre was defended by a group calling itself Alianza Apostolica Anticomunista (Triple A or AAA). The suspects arrested were close to Blas Pinar's Fuerza Nueva far-right party, the Falange-JONS and the Franco Guard.

  • At a traffic light in the outskirts of Murcia, Spain.

  • A life-size statue of Jesus in the window of a Catholic paraphernalia shop in Murcia.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Papal, Royal, Hospital and Primitive Association of Saint Jesus Savior Brotherhood" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 19, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Procession of the "Royal and Very Illustrious brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth" during the Holy Week in Murcia, April 22, 2011.

  • Restroom of the "La Tapa" bar, Plaza de las Flores in Murcia.

  • Afternoon bar scene.

  • Afternoon bar scene.

  • Afternoon bar scene.

  • Afternoon bar scene.

  • Afternoon bar scene.

  • The "Urbanisacion Quinta" in Molina de Segura, near Murcia. This is one of many new neighborhoods of mid to high priced dream homes built starting around 2005. With the 2008 crisis many contractors went out of buisiness and construction stopped overnight, leaving empty lots amidst a mesh of streets, sidewalks spiked with amp posts. The brand new mall never opened, many homes have not found buyers despite 30 to 50 percent price drops.

  • The "Urbanisacion Quinta" in Molina de Segura, near Murcia. This is one of many new neighborhoods of mid to high priced dream homes built starting around 2005. With the 2008 crisis many contractors went out of buisiness and construction stopped overnight, leaving empty lots amidst a mesh of streets, sidewalks spiked with amp posts. The brand new mall never opened, many homes have not found buyers despite 30 to 50 percent price drops.

  • The "Urbanisacion Quinta" in Molina de Segura, near Murcia. This is one of many new neighborhoods of mid to high priced dream homes built starting around 2005. With the 2008 crisis many contractors went out of buisiness and construction stopped overnight, leaving empty lots amidst a mesh of streets, sidewalks spiked with amp posts. The brand new mall never opened, many homes have not found buyers despite 30 to 50 percent price drops.

  • The "Urbanisacion Quinta" in Molina de Segura, near Murcia. This is one of many new neighborhoods of mid to high priced dream homes built starting around 2005. With the 2008 crisis many contractors went out of buisiness and construction stopped overnight, leaving empty lots amidst a mesh of streets, sidewalks spiked with amp posts. The brand new mall never opened, many homes have not found buyers despite 30 to 50 percent price drops.

  • The "Urbanisacion Quinta" in Molina de Segura, near Murcia. This is one of many new neighborhoods of mid to high priced dream homes built starting around 2005. With the 2008 crisis many contractors went out of buisiness and construction stopped overnight, leaving empty lots amidst a mesh of streets, sidewalks spiked with amp posts. The brand new mall never opened, many homes have not found buyers despite 30 to 50 percent price drops.

  • The "Urbanisacion Quinta" in Molina de Segura, near Murcia. This is one of many new neighborhoods of mid to high priced dream homes built starting around 2005. With the 2008 crisis many contractors went out of buisiness and construction stopped overnight, leaving empty lots amidst a mesh of streets, sidewalks spiked with amp posts. The brand new mall never opened, many homes have not found buyers despite 30 to 50 percent price drops.

  • The "Urbanisacion Quinta" in Molina de Segura, near Murcia. This is one of many new neighborhoods of mid to high priced dream homes built starting around 2005. With the 2008 crisis many contractors went out of buisiness and construction stopped overnight, leaving empty lots amidst a mesh of streets, sidewalks spiked with amp posts. The brand new mall never opened, many homes have not found buyers despite 30 to 50 percent price drops.

  • The "Urbanisacion Quinta" in Molina de Segura, near Murcia. This is one of many new neighborhoods of mid to high priced dream homes built starting around 2005. With the 2008 crisis many contractors went out of buisiness and construction stopped overnight, leaving empty lots amidst a mesh of streets, sidewalks spiked with amp posts. The brand new mall never opened, many homes have not found buyers despite 30 to 50 percent price drops.

  • The "Urbanisacion Quinta" in Molina de Segura, near Murcia. This is one of many new neighborhoods of mid to high priced dream homes built starting around 2005. With the 2008 crisis many contractors went out of buisiness and construction stopped overnight, leaving empty lots amidst a mesh of streets, sidewalks spiked with amp posts. The brand new mall never opened, many homes have not found buyers despite 30 to 50 percent price drops.