In this book are collected the images of New York on the eve of the tragedy of September 11.
Robés reflects all of his snapshots on the real and everyday Manhattan;
The bulle-bulle of the great New York hive: characters, buildings, movements ...
It is the soul of Manhattan portrayed in black and white, two colors that later Robés will fill with nuances in the meticulous work of his studio.
In this volume, the author wanted his visual reflection to be accompanied by poetry. Robés, a connoisseur and admirer of the work of Federico García Lorca, has revisited, through his objective, the New York tour of the Granadino poet in 1929.
This Manhattan begins ... with a text by Mario Hernández in which he rescues For the collective memory of the avatars of Poeta in New York, a book by Lorca that could not leave the bookstores of bookstores until 1940 in a double edition, in English in New York and in Spanish in Mexico City.
Two emotions come together and merge as the reader flips through the pages: the poet's verses and the photographer's images.
The New York of García Lorca, which was then still in and out with the inevitable sound of the sirens of ships, and the New York of Robes, in which, in their daily lives, the calls of mobile phones . This careful volume closes with the translation into English of its text into Spanish.
I remember inverse of the edition of Poet in New York, appeared first in English and soon in Castilian.