Diego Fernando Montanes Alvarez Statue Cadiz Spain

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A close, macro-style portrait of the bronze bust honoring Diego Fernando Montanes Alvarez in one of Cadiz's parks. Decades of oxidation have turned the metal a deep sea-green, and a shallow depth of field melts the park behind him into soft color, so all the weight of the frame sits in his weathered, downturned face.

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Photographer: Sapiens Verbum (Pablo Avanzini)
Subject: Bronze bust of Diego Fernando Montanes Alvarez
Location: Cadiz, Spain
Medium: Photograph, shallow depth of field
Series: Cadiz Photowalks
Weathered bronze bust of Diego Fernando Montanes Alvarez in a Cadiz park, shot in close-up with a soft, colorful blurred background
Diego Fernando Montanes Alvarez Statue, Cadiz Spain. Photograph by Sapiens Verbum (Pablo Avanzini).

Montanes Alvarez was born in Cadiz on 12 March 1795 and, on his death on 25 January 1874, left his fortune and house to the city. His bequest helped bring drinking water to Cadiz, funded harbor improvements and the promotion of agriculture and industry, established a pawnshop for the poor, and included a direct gift of two hundred thousand reales to the city's poorest residents.

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