Hortaleza . 1978
photos: © Javier Campano. VEGAP, Madrid . + PHotoESPAÑA
Through his lens, and with the acuity and visual elegance that are his hallmarks, the photographer Javier Campano (Madrid, 1950) managed to document the complete transformation of an exciting—and illusory—Madrid in the late 1970s that had major unresolved urban design and housing problems for an increasing population that had flocked there from the rural areas in the preceding decades. The city was at odds with itself in many neighbourhoods: huge brick apartment buildings along with a plethora of tenements or often self-built houses without either water or sewage, whose inhabitants aspired to live in these new flats they could not afford.
El Águila
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