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"In January of 2014, the newspaper La Verdad in its edition for Cartagena began the publication of a section that under the name of 'Photo Historia de Cartagena' wanted to document and contextualize in its value, the images, which become a text visual to explore and decipher, in relation to the values ​​in force at the time they were made.

For years, photographs have served as documents that prove the identity of people, but also as an analysis of the historical and cultural circumstances that come into play in the configuration of the visual memory of a city.

A documentary critique of photography as a witness and as an articulating element of historical memory involves seeing the image as it is (what was and what existed at a given moment), as well as finding in it the documentary perspective that leads us to the testimonial and historical dimension and its function of individual and collective memory.

From that perspective of the researcher came 'Foto Historia de Cartagena', the scenarios, the characters and the monuments disappeared, sometimes the documents survive, and, in this case, the photographs are and allow us to know the history of Cartagena with depth and rigor.

Fifty articles have been compiled for this book;

they are the first of many others that await its disclosure, because the story that is not written does not exist. "

With this synopsis is presented the book 'Photohistory of Cartagena (Volume 1)', by the official chronicler of the port city Luis Miguel Pérez Adán, which also has a foreword by the Malbec editor, Javier Salinas.

This compilation work that brings together 50 articles with more than 400 historical images of the city will be presented on Tuesday, November 21 at 7:00 p.m. in the Multipurpose Hall of the Municipal Archive of Cartagena (located in the Artillery Park, Plaza López Pinto) with an act in which the author himself, Luis Miguel Pérez Adán, the book's editor, Javier Salinas Ramos, the delegate in Cartagena of Diario La Verdad, Gregorio Mármol, and the Archives and Libraries coordinator of the City of Cartagena, Cayetano, will intervene. Tornel

Likewise, copies of the same will be put on sale for 19'00 euros and the author will sign them to those who so wish.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena