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The photos that we took at the Museum were largely for the Restoration Workshop, to help them throughout the entire cleaning process: before, during and after. There was a department at the Museum that received all the requests from everyone for the publication of books. “They’ve asked for these paintings!”, and we took the photographs and sent them to the office, which was entrusted with sending them off and billing them.
Over a period of 46 years we were there taking photographs of all the paintings at the Museum. First of all in black and white, because colour film didn’t exist. When colour was introduced, especially in the slides that were used for publications, we had to photograph them all again. Publications were mostly produced in colour, which meant that we were forced to work with colour.
He joined the Museo del Prado as an art photographer, working there for four decades. He is the son of David Manso, the Museum's first police officer and also its first photographer.
Interview recorded on May 10, 2015
