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The Museum Is My Second Home
Carlos Manso Manso, General Operations Service Technician (Photographer), 1953-1999The Museum Is My Second Home
Carlos Manso Manso, General Operations Service Technician (Photographer), 1953-1999
I don’t miss the camera, because I ended up being very tired of it. The first thing I do when I reach the Museum, and I tend to come early, is to go to the Velázquez Hall and stand in front of Las Meninas. I’ll stay there for a while. Just looking. Remembering past times. And just reminiscing … And then I continue my stroll around the Museum. I worked here for 46 years, not counting the visits I made before, because when I was a student I used to come here, and I used to walk round with my father too. Well, the Museum is like my second home.
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
Interview index
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Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, David Manso and Mariano Moreno -
Manuel Olivares: Roving Photographer -
The 1940’s: The Beginnings of the Photography Laboratory -
An Historical Photo -
I Joined the Museum in 1953 -
Glass Plates and Celluloid -
From Black and White to Colour -
Lighting a Painting Is Complicated -
An Incident Resolved by Sánchez Cantón y Tormo -
Photographing the Restoration of the Dauphin’s Treasure -
The 1980’s: The Laboratory Moves to the Casón -
Photographing the Guernica at the Casón -
Directors and Other Visitors -
We Worked in a Family Atmosphere -
The Museum Is My Second Home
- Included in themes
- The Museum leaves its mark
- Collective
- Photography
- Chronology
- 1990-2000
- RDF
- RDF
Theme
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Voces del Prado