The Prado and the Museo Reina Sofia are only a short walk away.

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He was the first living Spanish photographer to be the subject of a retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

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Meanwhile, a show of his paintings and drawings is at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, and an artist's book, co-written with the curator, Catherine Lampert, has been published to coincide with it.

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