Tirante de la cubierta del Hipódromo de la Zarzuela, 1936

The playwright Henrik Ibsen said that a picture was worth a thousand words. But not all images have the same power. Only some have the capacity to capture the eye of our feelings and emote us.

This short essay skims – at varying speed – through the memory lane of some evocative pictures whose eloquent message has tirelessly crossed borders since they first appeared. They are photographs of the early modern work of Eduardo Torroja (1899-1961), taken by Sibylle von Kaskel (1905-2006) in 1936. More than eighty years after, they are still en route, traveling from one publication to another, spreading a timelessly inspiring, brilliant legacy. A fascinating story never before told from the angle of its lead characters, in which art, technology, modernity, and wartime friendships are interwoven like links of a chain...[+]