Life In Stills: December 2005

Saturday, December 31, 2005

hmm

After doing a little bit of browsing, I found out that if people are identifiable in a picture that you have to get them to sign a waiver before you can use it as your own in the public domain. That means that some of my pictures have either been removed or edited so that you cannot tell who the person is. Oh well.... :)

Friday, December 30, 2005

child

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Santa Cruz Del Valle De Los Caidos

Photos by Suzanne McVay

"The monument is an underground church and tomb topped with a 500 foot stone cross, which can be seen from a distance of 30 miles. Although supposedly honoring all the dead in the Spanish Civil war, only two names are commemorated, those of General Francisco Franco and of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (and safely dead before the mausoleum was started). Most critics see this gargantuan memorial, not as a mode of post-civil war reconciliation, but rather of Fascist theatricality. And we are often reminded that prisoners on the Republican side, many of whom lost their lives in the process, were forced to quarry this huge cavern out of the rock. Sculptures were designed by Juan de Avalos." [source]