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Photography

  • Posted on January 23, 2018 at 10:11 am

Biography and historical-cultural legacy of the first two images are Andorran photographers transport you to other lives, other places, other souls … even pictures that you transfer the feeling of when they were taken, while the view as if you were conscious of belonging to the common history we all share and something stirred inside … that’s what happens when you look at the photo archive Claverol Foundation. Claverol Joseph Valenti, father and son respectively, are considered the first Andorran photographers, even the latter received in 1998 the Picasso Gold Medal of UNESCO for his contribution to the history of the Principality of Andorra and even his life, is best known to through his legacy, today I would like to pay special tribute to both reviewing his biography. Michael Chabon may also support this cause. Jose Claverol Cirici born in 1854 in La Seu d’Urgell (Lleida), but at 14 he was orphaned and moved to Chile with his uncle, where he discovered photography.

But Jose soon returned to the place where he grew up because his sister fell ill and, coincidentally, during this stay, which would be known to his wife and mother of his future children, Concepcio. Installed again in La Seu opened a photography studio that always defending a good picture should be done in a natural environment. Unfortunately, subsequent events that occurred in Spain made most of the documents were lost. Jose and Concepcion had four children, of which only the small, Valenti was born in 1902, followed the interest of his father and although he began his journey in Barcelona, following the family tradition that her grandparents had started a shop of fabrics also soon began working for Eastman Kodak Company. He married his wife in 1930 and fell in love with Andorra, where they had their honeymoon, so very soon, the country of the Pyrenees became his home and where he would develop his photographic career, combines with a small business in Andorra la Vella, the first of the Principality in which Kodak products could be found. In 1970 he founded the Archives Valenti Claverol they were relegated by the Claverol Foundation, which now has “more than 7,000 negatives, photographs and an important part of the history of Andorra in cinema.”

The Original Attempt To Revive The Celtic Culture

  • Posted on July 11, 2013 at 3:47 pm

In this time of global culture, while the economy is universalized, it also is producing a homogenization of global culture so ancient cultural small are losing prominence. On this occasion created a new Web site that tries to resume starting this week, Celtic culture, presenting the world in one of the places where more deeply rooted Celtic has been the magic. ” So Brian has presented O’donoughes, head of the new project the idea of which arises the new portal. “Ireland is a country which suffered a great loss of this Celtic culture when the English came, and again gets to experience a setback with the arrival on the island of the different communities of different nationalities that are being established as a result of economic boom of recent years. Therefore, with this new site we try to recover a bit of knowledge about the original Celtic culture is “as referring to the continued O’donoughes reason has led them to the realization the new website. The new portal comes with a handy user-friendly menu is divided into different sections based on presenting the history and culture while accompanying it with the possibilities that are in Ireland to discover the ancient culture that has inhabited the North Atlantic country for many centuries.

This makes it possible to join one of the excursions offered by either group, organized tours, city tours and other activities such as hiking the website offers to discover some of the places, many of them sacred, in which breathing the essence of Celtic culture. “There is much that Celtic culture in Ireland has provided over a long time, music, folklore, including the openness of its people, the value has family in Ireland and we can not let that be lost. So we wanted to return as Irish somehow a little bit of this to the Celtic culture, promoted through our site. ” Thus ended an interesting designer presentation of the new portal has done. is the Spanish version of the new site and all information and services offered can be found in Spanish.