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Re-living Spain’s civil war with Google Street View
Local Source: El Pais December 3, 2014
Using creativity and available technology, writer Sebastian Maharag allows Spaniards to travel through time to Madrid in 1936, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War.
Maharag has created montage mixed images of the conflict using Google Street View.
“It’s a slap in the face of reality,” the Spanish-American writer, whose collection of images can be seen on his website, Yorokobu, says. “It leaves you stunned as your brain tries to assimilate the two realities, two times in one place.”
Throughout the collection, you can see in the same picture parts of Spain’s history and the consequences of the war. Twenty shocking photos re-live dramatic moments from the war while also seeing people walk their dogs in the capital today.
The photographs show portraits of war, bombings, streets invaded by troops from both sides, collapsing buildings, etc. Maharag wants citizens to remember what their nation has been through and how the country got to where it is today.
Spain’s civil war was three years long. The democratically elected Spanish Republic fought the Nationalists, a fascist rebel group led by General Francisco Franco, who won and rules for 36 years. It is estimated that 500,000 were killed and about as many fled the country.
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