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The mayor of Algeciras, José Ignacio Landaluce, will preside this Thursday, in the Guillermo Pérez Villalta building the presentation of the book "Gibraltar 1888. Photography and military uses"edited by the Museum. The presentation will be to position of two of its authors, Juan Carlos Pardo and Fernando de la Puente, and of the artistic director of the Museum, Valentin Vallhonrat.

Juan Carlos Pardo is graduate in Geography and History and Fine Arts, has been a teacher, among other centers, in the IES Saladillo, and is currently head of department Drawing at the School of Art in Algeciras. For his part Fernando de la Puente is currently administrator of the Museum.

The main work of the event analyzes one of the first acquisitions that the University of Navarra made to expand its photographic collection. Specifically, it is a wooden box with an album of sixty albumen photographs taken from 1870 by the British photographer John Hollingworth Mann showing various views of the Rock of Gibraltar, buildings and relevant facilities. A commission led by Federico Magallanes, lieutenant colonel of the Army General Staff, had as goal to detail the British strategic positions in the area. 

The mayor of Algeciras has highlighted the value of works such as this book, which help to recover and interpret photographic documents that make more accessible and closer, outside the circles of experts in the subject, the history of the region, and has emphasized that a researcher based in Algeciras is one of the co-authors of a study conducted by an institution as prestigious as the University of Navarra.