In the Plaza de San Felipe, No. 8, steeped in ancient beauty plaza retaining the memory of the New Tower, demolished in 1892, Aurelio was born on March 11, 1893, being the second youngest of the brothers. His parents, Joachim and Heloise Fat Sieso Sancho Serrano owned "The Golden Ball 'bazaar that, according Moneva, "the public was, had gone for, taught by experience, which was not in any other shop in Zaragoza, from chess sets to the best instrumental steel or Solingen Manchester."
Starts in 1899 primary school in the nearby College of San Felipe is located in the Palace of Argillo, and we see in photo Mur part of the whole infant classes with its two religious teachers in the center. That year, six years his father congratulated with a postcard dated at:
Zaragoza, August 20
Dear Santa: I would present him in this day and V. deserves, but a child of six years, what do you do? Four poorly drawn doodles and nothing else. Because receives congratulations on his birthday, as known to express his son Aurelio.
Gets Award 1 st Class in 1905. In 1906 he made his First Communion in the Church of San Felipe and Santiago, are twenty-two communicants, and retain the graphic picture of the event Enrique Beltran, whose study was already in the calle Alfonso I, 1 º. The children wear their best clothes, the three teachers in the school and Aurelio between them. Beltrán then portrays new hairstyle for the occasion. His parents give him a bicycle and a camera, beginning in these arts with his older brother Joseph, who was a cabinet photo Montera street, 8.
One of the first photographs Aurelio preserved date from 1907 and narrated in a photographic impeccable, published in Black and White Madrid, the vicissitudes of an event that was in suspense to the city in that year : The escape through the streets of Zaragoza and prosecution of abusive police Mr. Elio children who took refuge in the Church of San Felipe, where he was arrested and taken to the police van. Fat Aurelio, from three balconies of the building next to the Torreon Fortea, we realize the scene and the movement of people determined not to miss the event. On the back of the photographs sent to the White and Black, is describing the moment his autograph.
See our blog entry: Aurelio Fat and Belmonte in a book by Alberto Bayod,
August 4, 2009
In 1908 performed with the camera Tick a collection of photos of landmark buildings to the English French, even before its release, with special emphasis on recently discovered a Roman mosaic. Also portrays their immediate environment, his brothers Emilio and Joseph and the photographer Ignacio Coyne, the family business, his dog and his cat, his friends from the Plaza and the College of San Felipe and El Pilar. The group of children playing marbles in the Plaza de San Felipe, with his College in the background, gives an idea of \u200b\u200bstudent life of Zaragoza at the time. Kids have fun after school playing outdoors at sunset, and marbles are sufficient to achieve happiness. Aurelio Photography The cow also Mr. Director of the College of San Felipe , a beautiful cow full of milk, watching the photographer, with his keeper, a peasant slim and serene, with his cigarette and faded beret. On the back of this photograph reads autograph, we refer to the legend, ie from the beginning Aurelio photographic paper and noting the event, as if sensing that would provide data for future observers who were not at that time . This is all a foretaste of the reporters from the years of 1930 in Europe, documenting the military events they attend, such as Cartier Bresson.
Aurelio gets on the roofs of the buildings in his neighborhood to make out the skyline of Zaragoza and describes the overview of a city in which the rooftops of the brick tower emerges San Pablo with his majesty Architectural captured by a boy of only fourteen. Witnessed the birth of a genius Aragon of photography, born in the Plaza de San Felipe No. 8 and educated at the College of San Felipe, Palacio de Argillo, today splendid Museum of the sculptor Pablo Gargallo, thanks to the generosity of his daughter Pierret Gargallo and the great contribution of the City of Zaragoza.
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