Tag: Punta del Este
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Rafael Alberti, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1947
Spanish poet Rafael Alberti (1902-1999) was a member of the so-called Spanish writers’ “Generation 27” and one of the literary voices of the left-wing Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. He left Spain after Franco’s victory and, after a spell in Paris, went into exile in Argentina with his wife María Teresa León. He stayed…
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Aitana Alberti, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1947
Aitana Alberti, born in 1941 in Buenos Aires, is the daughter of Rafael Alberti and María Teresa León. Here she was photographed by the Mandellos during a summer holiday in Punta del Este, in the family’s vacation home “La Gallarda”. Aitana Alberti is an anthropologist and poet who lives in Cuba where she presides the…