Photos of Gardel: in his films, with friends, etc.
Fotos de Gardel: en sus filmes, con amigos, etc.

During his career, which spanned the years from 1912-1935, Gardel was photographed many times first with his singing partner, José Razzano, and later during Radio and Film performances, for publicity and with his friends. Below is a small sample. Many original photos are in hands of die hard collectors. Without a doubt, his best known photographer was José María Silva of Montevideo, Uruguay.

On the right, when Gardel was 18 years old.

Durante su carrera que duró desde 1912-1935, Gardel fue fotografiado muchas veces, primero con su socio de canto, José Razzano, mas tarde durante sus actuaciones radiales, para sus filmes, publicidad y con sus amigos. Muchas fotos originales están en posesión de unos pocos pero fanáticos coleccionistas. Sin duda, su mejor fotografo era José María Silva de Montevideo, Uruguay.

A la derecha, Gardel cuando tenía 18 años.

NUEVO: Fotos de Berthe Gardes, la madre de Gardel.

NUEVO: Fotos de Gardel en Flickr.com

1. Carlos Gardel, age 8 years old, with María Franchini (1898)
2. Carlos Gardel con la familia Capot - 1909
   Gardel parece formal pese a su juventud: tenía 19 años.
3. Carlos Gardel: 9 de julio de 1913. Foto publicitaria.
   Se nota la marca a lápiz que hizo el fotógrafo para el recorte de impresión. Como se puede apreciar la toma era un poco mas amplia que las publicadas y Carlitos lucia un simpático chaleco a cuadritos.
4. Carlos Gardel: 1918, Cuando tenia 28 años.
5. Carlos Gardel in the theater "Apolo, Madrid 1923
6. Carlos Gardel & his eight Guitarists
7. Carlos Gardel, Panchito, Recaldo y su maestro de canto Eduardo Bonessi.
8. Berthe Gardes y Antonio Sumage "El Aviador" (chofer de Gardel) al fin de la década de los años 20.
9. Carlos Gardel en Córdoba 1925.
   Con su guitarristas el "negro" José Ricardo y Guillermo Barbieri.
10. Gardel in the photo studio of José María Silva, Montevideo, Uruguay
11. Carlos Gardel in Montevideo, Uruguay - 1925-1926. Photo by: José María Silva
    • Vea tambien: Muere fotógrafo de Carlos Gardel, José María Silva
12. Foto de Carlos Gardel en su departamento de la calle Rincón, 1927.
13. Anais Beaux de Muñiz, Fortunato Muñiz y Berthe Gardes en la casa de Jean Jaurés 735 (1927-35?).
14. José Razzano (1887-1960) Gardel's singing partner and business manager. Photo is from 1927.
15. Carlos Gardel y Carlos César Lenzi.  Niza, el verano de 1929.
16. Gardel photo from his 1931 movie "Luces de Buenos Aires".  
    From the personal collection of Jack Lupic.
17. Carlos Gardel, Sofía Bozán, Gloria Guzmán, Adelqui Millar, Manuel Romero, and others during the filming at the Joinville Studios of LAS LUCES DE BUENOS AIRES (Paramount, 1931). From the book: "The Film Industry in Argentina" An Illustrated Cultural History,  by Jorge Finkielman.
18. Gardel on the Conte Rosso on Oct. 28, 1931 on the way to perform in Europe.  
    Armado Defino, José Razzano, Carlos Gardel, Ignacio Corsini, Francisco Canaro &   Canaro's wife Martha.
19. Carlos Gardel with the Wakefields in Paris
20. Carlos Gardel Gardel en los estudios Paramount de Joinville, Francia (1931?).
21. Carlos Gardel y Juan Pecci en Niza, Francia 1932.
22. Foto de Carlos Gardel en un descanso de filmación de "La casa es seria".
23. Carlos Gardel in the film ESPERAME (1933). Colorized photo.
24. Classical Gardel photo by De Silva in Montevideo (1933)
25. Carlos Gardel en la Playa Mulata, Montevideo, Uruguay 30 de octubre de 1933.
    Con Ricardo Bonapelch, Manuel Barca y Pedro Bernat. Foto LEWIS, Montevideo.
26. Foto de Gardel que apareció en el año 1933, en la contratapa del primer número de la revista Sintonía.
27. Una foto tomada en la casa de Francisco Maschio, durante el homenaje de despedida a Gardel: 5 de noviembre de 1933. Colección Carlos Vertanessian.
    Los guitarristas son Vivas, Barbieri, Pettorossi y Riverol. También aparecen, entre otros, César Ratti, Irineo Leguisamo, Edgardo Donato, Armando Defino, Emma Rodríguez, varios jockeys, cuidadores y gente vinculada al ambiente del turf.
28. Monday, Nov. 6, 1933: at 20:30, Gardel's last farewell with Argentine and Uruguayan audience via Radio Nacional (LR3). La despedida de Gardel via la Radio Nacional, 6 de noviembre de 1933 (antes de partir para Europa).
29. Carlos Gardel con Armando Defino, 1933.
30. Carlos Gardel Gardel junto a los leales y pampeanos de Avellaneda (1933?).
31. Carlos Gardel with Isabel del Valle and friends on board Italian luxury liner Conte Biancamano: Buenos Aires, Nov. 7, 1933.  
    This was Gardel's fairwell party with his closest friends before he sailed to Europe, never to return. (With a a photo from the personal collection of Jack Lupic).
32. Gardel at a party in the "Casa Max Glücksmann" with Max Glucksmann and his brother Enrique, Ricardo's father Adolfo, José Razzano, Francisco Canaro and others.
    Photo from Ricardo S. Glücksmann, Max Glücksmann's great-grand nephew, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
33. Carlos Gardel en su casa de la calle Jean Jaurés 735.
    Gardel in his house at 735 Jean Jaurés Street.
34. Carlos Gardel en Montevideo con el presidente Terra (centro), Eduardo V. Haedo, Ricardo Bonapelch y sus guitarristas: Julio Vivas, Horacio Pettorossi, Guillermo Barbieri y Angel Domingo Riverol. 5 de octubre de 1933.
35. Carlos Gardel & Mona Maris in Cuesta Abajo - 1934.
36. Carlos Gardel in Cuesta abajo - 1934.
    Scans of the photos provided by Les Adams. Clyde, Texas, U. S. October 19, 2004.
37. Gardel in New York in 1934 during the filming of "El tango en Broadway"
38. Movie posters from "Melodia de Arrabal", (1934) by Brandon McGrath, U.S.A.
39. Carlos Gardel y Roberto Socas, cronista de LA NACION, en fotos exclusivas, tomadas en Nueva York, el 17 de junio de 1934, un año antes de la muerte del cantante. (Carlos Gardel in New York in an interview with La Nacion's reporter, June 17, 1934).
40. Gardel and his French family in Albi, September 18, 1934. For more photos of Gardel's family, see: 
    • Carlos Gardel's French Origins and
    • Berthe Gardes, su sobrina Marie Aragou-Ramières (Marisou) y hermana politica Charlote Gardes.
41. Witness to Gardel's visit to San Juan Puerto Rico in April 1935
    Jim Meade's mother-in-law, Maria del Pilar Gutierrez, was age seven and remembers Gardel's visit to San Juan Puerto Rico in April 1935, shortly before his tragic death. Her father's 12-cylinder Cadillac convertible was used to transport Gardel through the streets amid the throngs of people.
42. Gardel in Long Island, New York - Jan. - Feb. 1935.
    Always the practical joker, he is seen here showeling snow into a straw hat.
43. Photos from Gardel film "El Dia Que me Quieras", 1935.
44. Carlos Gardel y Astor Piazzolla en el film "El dia que me quieras", 1935.
45. Carlos Gardel in Tango Bar, 1935. Aporte de Fabio Cernuda, el 13 y 30 de septiembre de 2004.
46. Gardel at RCA Victor, New York, 1935.
47. Carlos Gardel - Filmography: Photos from his some of his films.
48. Carlos Gardel in 1935
49. Carlos Gardel en la Isla de Aruba, 28 de mayo de 1935.
    Frente a Trimotor Fokker de la compañia Royal Maatschappy Airlines. Gardel viajó en ese avión desde Aruba a Curazao. Este fue su primer viaje en un avión. (Gardel in Aruba airport on May 28, 1935, his first plane flight).

50. Una de las ultimas fotos de Gardel: En el avion SCADTA, 14 de junio de 1935.

51. Carlos Gardel en Bogotá, junio de 1935.
    De izquierda a derecha; Alfredo Le Pera, el empresario Defrancisco, Gardel y Reyes, otro hombre de negocios.

52. Gardel in Medellin Airport, June 24, 1935.
    One of the last photos of Gardel. Together with Alfredo Le Pera.
53. Carlos Gardel with his friend Irineo Leguisamo (two photos).
54. Una foto y carta que Gardel dedicó a su novia Isabel (192?). La Cancion Moderna, 13 de julio de 1935.
55. LA CICATRIZ DEL ZORZAL (Gardel with a childhood scar).
56. Julio Korn de RADIOLANDIA haciendo entrega de un album de recuerdos de Carlos Gardel a su madre Berthe. Junio de 1936.
57. Errores de la prensa y disputas del lugar de nacimiento de Carlos Gardel. Aporte por Jorge Muscia.
58. Gardel photo: Smoking a cigarette.
59. Carlos Gardel Poster
60. Teatro Empire donde actuó Gardel en los años 1929 y 1930. 
    Empire Theater in Paris where Gardel performed in 1929 & 1930.
61. Gardel's last resting place in la Chacarita Cemetery Buenos Aires, Argentina.
62. Clara Koser, Brooklyn, NY: Su placa en la tumba de Carlos Gardel en la Chacarita, Buenos Aires.
     

Gardel Theme Photos:

1. Los festejos que se realizaron en la Casa Museo Gardeliana en Medellin, 24 de junio de 2005.
   Fueron auspiciados por la Asociación Gardeliana de Colombia. Las fotos enviadas 6 de julio de 2005 por: Roberto Uribe, Medellin, Colombia.
2. Statue of Carlos Gardel outside the Abasto, Buenos Aires. La estatua de Carlos Gardel en el barrio de Abasto, Buenos Aires.
3. Buenos Aires: The happy San Telmo's dancer. With Gardel's smiling approval.
   Sent to me by Karina B. da Silva from Porto Alegres, Brasil on Sept. 19, 2004.
   Thank you (obrigado) Karina.
4. La puerta del carro con la pintura de Gardel. Por C. Carboni.
    

Other sites:

1. Gardel Universal website has many photos of Gardel: 1 | 2
2. Congreso Quien es Gardel
3. elportaldeltango.com
4. carlosgardel.8m.com
5. Todotango.com
6. Google Search for Gardel photos
7. Search Yahoo.com for Gardel photos

(Posted with permission of El Firulete, The Argentine Tango Newsletter)

Hanging on a wall, a portrait of a handsome Carlos Gardel overlooks an area where some of my friends and I sometimes sit around to enjoy lengthy talks about tango.

This is a whole new experience for some of them because they have this image of exotic savagery from a far away land that colonialism has attached to the Tango. So, sooner or later they pop the question: Who's the guy in the picture? I turn my head towards the wall, I crack a faint smile, and this is what I tell them:

That one is Gardel, his friends call him Carlitos. It is not hard to befriend him. I ought to know because I invented him.
I think it happened on a Sunday afternoon. I was sipping mate, surrounded by nostalgia and maybe I had a touch of the blues. I was listening soft tangos on the radio. It was right after the soccer games had ended. Surely my heart was aching at the sight of some picture on the dresser. I had that I-just-don't-feel-like attitude. Was I reading a letter? For sure I was feeling that way, silly with boredom, philosophizing about the purpose of living without a woman, with no money, sulking. Suddenly I felt awfully alone, like an orphan, very much like when I was a kid. Maybe I hit rock bottom, perhaps I entertained the thought of plastering the wall with blood stained pieces of my brains.

Then, I don't know how, something very strange happened. It materialized like an angel from within. I became prophetic. I woke up biblical. I glanced at the spider webs entangled on the ceiling, and I said to myself, self I said:
"Let's create a God that represents what I wanted to be and never was. Let's give Him the best, the way we sing, the freedom of a bird. Let's invent Him a name, a voice that will last for centuries to come, an attitude to face the world, handsome, easygoing, always dealing destiny its best hand..." And yes! I wished it and He was. His skin turned out to be a little dark. His smile had a glorious gleam. His hair was slick and He looked eternal like a God or a CD. Then the overcast skies began to break into blue patches and His voice was singing "My Beloved Buenos Aires." It was about 6 p.m., you know, the hour when the tango music begins to play softly on the radio, just after the soccer games are over.

Who's the guy in the picture was inspired on a poem by Argentine poet Humberto Constantini.
I dedicate it to the memory of my father who probably invented Gardel many times.