monthly special supplement in the Herald's 115th anniversary dedicated to interviews, on page 8, recalls the interview published on October 12, 1919, which tells how his friend Aurelio Fat and Damaso Castejon, that target Monasterio de Piedra from Zaragoza, and the visit, are Don Ramón Santiago y Cajal, and they tell as follows:
... the old monastery cloister advances slowly, slowly, a familiar figure. Is unmistakable, "seems Ramón y Cajal" ... .. and a few steps, we make sure that it was indeed the great English, venerable sage .... Fat Aurelio, the young doctor, come on shy and smiling to greet the illustrious Aragonese. We also offer our respects. We all hosts without pretense, with phrases cut and fights, but in a simplicity that appeals. I bombarded him with endless questions and fear after abusing his indulgence ... "
Don Santiago explains why it is in the Monasterio de Piedra, and not in the spa town of Alhama de Aragón, and seeking solitude. Taking advantage of this proximity, Fat Aurelio, who always carried his camera this new facet of physician and traveler, he made two glass plates to Don Santiago, to maintain, and while both positive and sent them back signed with the following dedications: To my dear friend Dr. Fat, in testimony of esteem and affection, the original. In his pose, sitting in front with a fan.
In the other, which sits in profile, one of the masterpieces of English portrait photography, wrote the following: to my dear colleague Dr. Fat, in testimony of esteem and sympathy. Madrid, October 25, 1919. S. Ramón y Cajal.
was so impressed by these pictures of fat, which Mr. James wrote a meditation on aging, which were published in the Herald of Aragon on Sunday December 29, 1999, to mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Texture, and reads as follows: What most deplore in old age (as revealed in these photographs), loss of physical and moral individuality, that nothing is more like a skull another skull. What the French call "The sad age of mourning" could be called also "The age of the portraits." Next should be the death when they ask friends and admirers repeatedly bust. Make haste to please them rather than your head, it starts to become dried skull. The glory late in the middle of old age, brings the weary spirit peaceful and gentle melancholy. About sunset pink sky larks sing no longer, but shriek bats. And above all stand great pain, we need the kiss of parental love and the kiss of Judas from enemies. The sadness of the elderly is put in that terrible phrase "there is no tomorrow." We must, however, react against that grim old feeling, not derived from the heart leaving to blows. If we are farmers, we ask God stark surprise us by planting a tree, if scientists, bent over a microscope or test tube, if writers, reclining on pages dawns, the most noble of the shrouds. Madrid, October 7, 1919 . Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
The Royal Photographic Society of Zaragoza wanted to honor one of their first founding partners, as was Aurelio Fat Sancho, and the current location have been exposed five Articles published in the Sunday Herald by Juan Dominguez Lasierra to celebrate the centennial of the first photo released by fat in the newspaper, on 13 June 1910. Following the tribute, the exhibition of eighteenth Trophy Portrait RSFZ in the exhibition hall of Fotoprix, street Pedro María Ric, together with the photographic work of members, presents three portraits of Aurelio Fat, among them is one of Don Santiago Ramón y Cajal in the Monasterio de Piedra in 1919, along with two portraits of ladies of the 30's.
Carlos Barboza Vargas
picasa See the collection of portraits.
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