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Martín Chambi

Boda de Don Julio Gadea, prefecto de Cuzco, 1930

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Martín Chambi Machu Picchu, Cuzco, 1928,

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Martin Chambi (Peruvian, 1891-1973)

An pedal-organ player in an acoustically friendly niche.

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Martín Chambi Jiménez (Puno, Peru 1891-Cuzco 1973) was an indigenous photographer born in Coaza, Carabaya Province, north of Lake Titicaca, Peru. Coming from a very humble family, he worked in the fields from an early age and received an elementary education.

Later his family would work in the gold mines of Carabaya where Chambi first saw a camera, as there was an American photographer documenting the deposit.

Chambi decided he wanted to be a photographer and for two years he patiently collected gold nuggets deposited by the rains at the mouth of the mine and when he had a full jar he asked his father to allow him to learn photography; the gold would pay for his expenses as an apprentice.

"I feel that I am representative of my race; my people speak through my photographs," he said.

Considered a pioneer of portrait photography, Chambi was recognised as one of the universal Peruvians of the 20th century. Initially devoted to Andean landscapes and later to portraits, his studio became a must for both high society and the lower classes. There he tested the light on all the people he portrayed and was a revolutionary in playing with the intensity of the light.

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“To the well” Cuzco, Perù, c.1920

Ph by: Martin Chambi

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S1000056 por Martin Schweitzer Por Flickr: Blonay Chamby Railway Museum 10.+11. Mai 2018 blonay-chamby.ch/

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RESEARCH- Portrait photographers

IN THE AMERICAN WEST -Richard Avedon

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Richard Avedon was an influential American fashion and fine art photographer. His iconic portraits of celebrities, spanned more than half of the 20th century, and included Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Tupac Shakur.  Avedon’s photos are very visually distinctive. Black and white, high contrast and with a stark white background, they are instantly recognisable.

In 1987 The Carter museum commissioned Avedon to create a portrait of the American West through its people. The resulting photographic series, In the American West, has become a touchstone in photographic history. In his photos, Avedon captured the spirit of people who conveyed through their faces, clothes, and postures not merely hard living but the full embrace of existence. Focusing on the rural West, Avedon visited ranches and rodeos, but he also went to truck stops, oil fields, and slaughterhouses. Rather than playing to the western myths of grandeur and space, he sought out people whose appearance and life circumstances were the antithesis of mythical images of the ruggedly handsome cowboy, beautiful pioneer wife, dashing outdoor adventurer, or industry mogul. The subjects he chose for the portraits were more ordinary people coping with normal daily struggles. 

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

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Annie Leibovitz is a well known and much loved  American photographer famous for her engaging and bold portraits of pop culture icons. Adept at capturing her subject’s personality and personal life, her images show intimate or staged moments that reveal the playful and not often seen aspects of her celebrity sitters. Her subjects have included Dolly Parton, Kieth Harrington and Queen Elizabeth, to name but a few, and she famously photographed John Lennon just hours before his death.

She began working as a commercial photographer at Rolling Stone magazine, and soon became the first woman to be named chief photographer. She left the publication and began working at Vanity Fair where she developed her style of staged and brightly lit portraits, and today, still regularly contributes to the magazine, as well as to Vogue. She has cited both Richard Avedon and Henry Cartier Bresson as influences to her work. In 1991, she became the first woman ever to have a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. 

Her images are mainly posed and staged, taken in a studio with a carefully arranged set.

MARTIN CHAMBI

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Martín Chambi Jiménez was a Peruvian photographer in the early 20th century, and one of the first major Indigenous Latin American photographers. Recognised for the historic and ethnic documentary value of his photographs, he shot hundreds of portraits in the towns and countryside of the Peruvian Andes. Chambi is well-known for his work in documenting the Indigenous culture, including Machu-Picchu and other ruins. In a magazine interview in 1936, he is quoted saying "in my archive I have more than two hundred photographs of diverse aspects of the Quechua culture.” 

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Martin Chambi

Fotógrafo peruano nacido en Cuzco considerado como pionero de la fotografía de retrato, se dedicó a retratar todos los rostros que componen Perú a finales del siglo xix e inicios del siglo siguiente, gracias a trabajar en minas de oro aqui hace contacto con la fotografia aprendiendo de los ingleses que trabajaban en la mina de esta manera buscando ser aprendiz y asistente y luego fotografo para estas personas al migrar a Arequipa donde pule su estudio como fotógrafo como suerte por el turismo las inversiones y contexto social el puede ejercer su trabajo como fotógrafo, donde sus obras que se destacan son fotos de testimonio biológico y étnico, ha retratado profundamente a la población peruana y su patrimonio ya que el pudo captar tambien este choque hermoso del las antiguas costumbres con las nuevas tecnologías y costumbres que se fueron a enraizando en Perú como ejemplo la llegada de los automóviles motocicletas y vuelos aéreos.

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Martín Chambi muros de Sacsayhuamán 1940..

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Martin Chambi (1891-1973)

Peru

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Martin Chambi, 1936. Ideal silhouette.

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Discendente dei giganti, 1925

Questa fotografia è stata scattata da Martin Chambi Jimenez, uno dei primi noti fotografi indigeni dell'America Latina.

È stato riconosciuto per il profondo valore documentario storico ed etnico delle sue fotografie.

Nella foto - un uomo alto, originario degli altopiani meridionali della provincia di Paruro e lo stesso fotografo. Questa razza di persone alte viveva in alcune parti delle foreste amazzoniche non più di pochi secoli fa.

Gli scheletri trovati in quei siti “ non mostrano segni di malattia, come problemi di crescita ormonale, che sono comuni nella maggior parte dei casi di gigantismo. Su tutti gli scheletri, le articolazioni erano sane e la cavità polmonare era grande. La maggior parte degli scheletri ha tutti i tratti distintivi della vecchiaia e della morte naturale per vecchiaia ”, l'antropologo britannico Russell Dement.

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