A small brazilian girl asks Santa Claus to give her a Christmas present

Armando Rozario
Rio, December - 1955

This 51 year old magazine cover was photographed by my Nokia6265 phone camera. I chose two settings, one at the VGA (640x480) and the other at 1600x1200. You may notice that the difference of the quality of the images are not very apparent! Both are good! As a young photographer of the Brazilian weekly magazine 'Manchete' I was assigned to register a scene for the publication's Christmas issue. A week before the deadline I visited a big department store in Rio 'Mesbla'. When I entered the building I noticed a group of children waiting in line....to ask Santa Claus for a Christmas present. When a small Brazilian girl cupped her hands to whisper, asking for a secret present for Christmas, I clicked the shutter of my Rolleiflex and captured the scene for the cover of the magazine I was working for (51 years ago!). The date which was published on the cover: 24th. of December 1955 . I had this old magazine amongst the newspapers and photos of my archives, so I decided to register it with a digital camera and post it at www.esato.com and show a moment which was registered on film 51 years ago.