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Café Society, Barcelona, Spain, 1998

"Members of the café society idle in Plaça Sant Josep Oriol in the Barri Gòtic, where a passing fire-eater encourages their thirst. In the early 1900s a young Pablo Picasso painted at studios in this quarter, inspired by the city's sharp Mediterranean light and shadowy street life."

—From "Barcelona: Star of the New Europe," December 1998, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by David Alan Harvey