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Photo 2. Taken by an unidentified
photographer (Buenos Aires, 1936) on
photo paper Ridax (89 x 63 mm), in
black and white, with a white frame of 5
mm and scalloped edges. On the back it
is written in pencil "7" and the location
is the inner courtyard of a house where
the girl Rita lived: Avenida del Tejar
(today Ricardo Balbin) 2646, in the
Coghlan neighborhood. The property
had another entry by Carlos Freire
Street 2633 and consisted of two
houses, both rented, in which the
Montero and Gyenge families lived.

The latter were a marriage of Hungarian
Jews with a daughter (Magda) of the
same age as Rita’s. Both Rita and her
father (Miguel Montero Severo) are
looking at the camera together with the
mother and daughter of the neighboring
family in a cross display that produces a
subtle aesthetic balance of shadows and
light by the black-white polarization in
pairs. Note that Rita is the only one not
smiling; she confessed that she did not
like this photo because the Gyenge
family was not exactly good neighbors.

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