There are many Images from Camilo Sesto’s artistic career and personal lifeand a very important part of it graphics memory will be accessible to visitors The museum that Alcoy soon dedicated to his most universal singer and composer. It will be among the future venue collections More than half a thousand images of translators made by photographer Juan Santiso Iglesias and the originals are stored in the bank. Pablo Iglesias Foundation. The entity dedicated to the memory of the founder of PSOE has transferred copies so that they can be made in digital format and viewed or consulted as such.
it’s all about that 524 slides that are part of the Pablo Iglesias Foundation’s Santiso Fund, according to municipal sources. The existence of this fund is due to the fact that: Juan Santiso did different work for the PSOE during the transition to democracy and in the 1980s.. The author, who passed away two years ago, is also great references to photojournalism in the late Franco era; so, for example, he was the only photojournalist to capture snapshots of a concert given to 6,000 students by singer-songwriter Raimon at the Complutense University of Madrid in May 1968, as the same sources recall.
However, Santis He combined his work of the more political genre with the photography of what was then commonly known as “show business.”, that is, the artistic field. That explains why the photojournalist has 524 images featuring Camilo Sesto as his backdrop, which has now become part of the Alcoyan singer-songwriter legacy. City Council and Pablo Iglesias Foundation recently signed an agreement for the transfer and use of these slides.
The mayor Toni Frances, along with the deputy mayor Jordi Martínez and Cultural Council Member Raül Llopis, recently traveled to Madrid to collect the slides, accompanied by Camilo Sesto’s heir, Camilo Blanes Ornelas, Mónica Sevila, and Lourdes’ lawyer. Ornelas. In the signed agreement, The Pablo Iglesias Foundation gives the slides to the City Council so the local institution can digitize them and make duplicates. One will be returned to the PSOE-linked entity along with the original, while the other will be part of the Camilo Sesto Museum funds.. The City Council is committed Indicate the authorship of Juan Santiso Iglesias and the origin of the images Pablo Iglesias Foundationin any publication and support.
After transferring the images, Frances emphasized: “Thanks to this agreement, the museum, which we remember as one of Camilo Sesto’s wishes, will help us get to know the singer better”. The space dedicated to the artist in Alcoy, as this newspaper publishes, 44 of El Camí street, in one of the three buildings into which the original building of the old Alcoy nursing home, built between 1879 and 1880, is divided. The first phase of the work, which includes the rehabilitation of the structure of the building, last September for 185,691.62 euros, nine-month delivery time.
The Cultural Council Member explains to this newspaper: Considering that the reevaluation law was signed last Friday, the start of work is imminent.. According to Raül Llopis, the prediction is: in a few days, work will begin to be carried out after all the necessary materials have been collected. Remember that the project includes replacing deck skirt joists on the patioTherefore, it is anticipated that some of the works will not be visible from the outside, but the start is in any case designed for the same October as planned.