35 years of the iconic news cover passed, The photograph of María Julia Alsogaray that became a symbol of menemist frivolity. The series about the life of Carlos Saúl Menem, in the first instance, and the unusual controversy between Susana Giménez and Graciela Alfano for whom he had lent the cover of skin to the then official brought that production to the current debate. And artificial intelligence helps imagine something of that historical production.
With the help of technology, you can see a Mary Julia in motion. Recognizing the photographer’s work, because it is in short what Osvaldo Dubini says that happened. “She was always grateful,” said the creator of the image to news days.
At almost 90 years old, Dubini remembers his most famous photo: they were in the winter season of the woods, “I knew I had to take some photographs to María Julia with an appearance of queen, but only that. I wasn’t aware of anything. When we arrived I saw that there was a crown and other ornaments. I was not going to put these things to María Julia. He was very Chabacanas, “he says. In a few minutes he got a plan B: he got Graciela Borges to lend him a skin cover and started working with that.
“She was sitting in the armchair and tells the combs to make a very youthful hairstyle. When I start looking at María Julia with the cover, I indicate that she discovers a little more legs, ”he explained And he explained: “I had suggested taking pictures as if I were an actress, so I ask him to show his shoulders more. But it was seen that he had a shirt underneath. I explain that her shirt bothered and she unbuttoned some buttons. In the end the shirt was still seen, she decided to unbutton all the buttons and that the cover hides any trace. ”
The rest is history. Alsogaray, who died in September 2017, had a love/ hate relationship with his most iconic lid. He sent her to frame and every time he crossed Dubini in an event, he presented it as “the one who took me the famous photos that you know.” But he received reproaches from the leadership and had to live together with having become a period image: the lightness of the `90 officials, which contrasted with the need for millions of Argentines.
