16 June 2010

It's Party Time!

Barcelona Mayor Jordi Hereu has an official photo album. The photographs are the work of his press office, some of them clearly posed, and categorised. One appears under a number of headings: it shows the mayor against a backdrop of city buildings, from a Gothic church tower in the middle distance to a Jean Nouvel skyscraper farther back:


The photograph has appeared on the City website and in City publications. It's also in Socialist Party publications, e.g.


The overlap doesn't end there. There's the masthead of the City's monthly bulletin:


And that of the Socialist Party's:


Different, but perhaps not different enough to be different. Here's are two sidebars:



A prize goes to anyone unfamiliar with Catalan who can guess which was published by the City, and which by the Party.

So who paid for the photograph? The City or the party? Or is there--after thirty-two years--some overlap?

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