All photos taken by me at Christmas time 2007
Above: the view from the Mirador San Cristobol.
This concludes my three part photo essay series on Granada.
Happy Friday!
Dec 4, 2009
Photo Essay: Granada pt.3, a stairway of stunning beauty
This isn't an attraction you'll read about in a guide book nor will you see it in a gallery nor a museum in Granada and yet it was one of the coolest, most phenomenal things we saw during our visit. We happened upon this gem quite unexpectedly while wandering the streets on foot. The staircase to Mirador San Cristobol, a lookout that peers over the citadel of Albaícin, the Sierra Nevada and the Alhambra, is a stunning gallery of local urban street art, a canvas of fluid collaborative images, and a mashup made all the more exquisite because of the ephemeral nature of urban murals.
All photos taken by me at Christmas time 2007
Above: the view from the Mirador San Cristobol.
All photos taken by me at Christmas time 2007
Above: the view from the Mirador San Cristobol.
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ZERO COMMENTS ON YOUR INCREDIBLE GRANADA STAIRCASE???!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH EVERYONE?? This is some amazing street art. You did well to get it down before some municipal idiot (or worse, brainless tagger) cleans it up or spoils it. I particularly love the clever finger moving up the stairs: must have been difficult from the point of view of perspective.
Hey, thanks for being the first to comment! :) From what I've seen the street art on this staircase is always changing. Last time I checked up on recent Flickr photos of the stairs, the finger was still there but the beautiful pregnant woman was replaced by something, in my opinion, less amazing. Street art is transitory and that's one of the reasons I love to photograph it.
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