First edition of Photographs 1920-1950 by Martin Chambi. First impression. Medium format softback in very good condition. A couple of creases to the back cover otherwise all pages and spine are clean and intact. please see photographs for reference.
About
Martn Chambi is today regarded as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Between 1920 and 1950 he assembled an unprecedented collection of photographs of the people and landscape of Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital that was in his day a cultural center in Peru. His studio was favored by the local elite, whose fiestas, weddings, and portraits he imbued with a unique outsider’s sensibility. Above all, he devoted himself to photographing his own people and the highland Indians whose ancestors built Cuzco with a keen postcolonial eye.
