{"id":1579,"date":"2021-05-15T19:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T00:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/actividades\/memoria-del-peru\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:30:45","slug":"memoria-del-peru","status":"publish","type":"actividades","link":"https:\/\/www.ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/en\/activities\/memoria-del-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"A Memoire of Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

A MEMOIRE OF PERU. 1890-1950 Photos<\/h4>\n

Carlo Trivelli<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a rich geography that combines Amazon forests, tropical glaciers, towering mountain ranges, and barren deserts, the various indigenous civilizations of Peru (one of the six countries considered cradles of civilization in the world) came into contact with people coming from Europe, Africa, and the East. \u00a0It was a story of conquest and migration which eventually gave way to a postcolonial environment.<\/p>\n

These elements -geography, society, and culture- have interacted in complex, and sometimes contradictory, ways and have produced amazing cultural manifestations. \u00a0One of these has been photography. \u00a0As evidenced by the photos included in Memoria del Per\u00fa<\/em>. \u00a0Fotograf\u00edas 1890-1950<\/em>, the Peruvian photographic tradition nurtured the undisputed talent of a group of prominent visual artists who used the camera (one of the most conspicuous emblems of modernity in the period under analysis) as a means to portray, understand, and interpret the country.<\/p>\n

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Eug\u00e8ne Courret. Roberto Baudot y se\u00f1oras, Lima, ca. 1890. Courret Archive, National Library of Peru<\/div>\n
Eug\u00e8ne Courret. Roberto Baudot y se\u00f1oras, Lima, ca. 1890. Courret Archive, National Library of Peru<\/figure><\/a>\n
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Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar. Ubaldina Y\u00e1bar, Paucartambo, Cusco, 1908<\/div>\n
Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar. Ubaldina Y\u00e1bar, Paucartambo, Cusco, 1908<\/figure><\/a>\n
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Carlos & Miguel Vargas. Palladoras de lana, Arequipa ca. 1915. Vargas Brothers Archive.<\/div>\n
Carlos & Miguel Vargas. Palladoras de lana, Arequipa ca. 1915. Vargas Brothers Archive.<\/figure><\/a>\n
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Carlos & Miguel Vargas. Escuela fiscal, Arequipa, ca. 1925<\/div>\n
Carlos & Miguel Vargas. Escuela fiscal, Arequipa, ca. 1925<\/figure><\/a>\n
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Pedro N. Montero. Retrato con inundaciones, Piura, 1925. Cristina Vargas collection<\/div>\n
Pedro N. Montero. Retrato con inundaciones, Piura, 1925. Cristina Vargas collection<\/figure><\/a>\n
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Mart\u00edn Chambi. Ezequiel Arce y su cosecha de papas, Cusco, 1939. Archivo Fotogr\u00e1fico Mart\u00edn Chambi<\/div>\n
Mart\u00edn Chambi. Ezequiel Arce y su cosecha de papas, Cusco, 1939. Archivo Fotogr\u00e1fico Mart\u00edn Chambi<\/figure><\/a>\n
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Unknown. Pareja de wampis (antes huambisa) y avioneta, ca. 1950. Instituto Ling\u00fc\u00edstico de Verano collection<\/div>\n
Unknown. Pareja de wampis (antes huambisa) y avioneta, ca. 1950. Instituto Ling\u00fc\u00edstico de Verano collection<\/figure><\/a>\n
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Baldomero Alejos. Retrato de mujer con ni\u00f1o en brazos, S\/f. Baldomero Alejos.<\/div>\n
Baldomero Alejos. Retrato de mujer con ni\u00f1o en brazos, S\/f. Baldomero Alejos.<\/figure><\/a>\n
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Walter O. Runcie. Mineros y mineral, Cotabambas, Apurimac, ca. 1939-1940. Walter O. Runcie Archive<\/div>\n
Walter O. Runcie. Mineros y mineral, Cotabambas, Apurimac, ca. 1939-1940. Walter O. Runcie Archive<\/figure><\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/span>\nPrevious<\/span>\n<\/a>\n\n<\/span>\nNext<\/span>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

For a society like that of the late nineteenth century Peru, fragmented geographically and culturally, the photographic image was an essential tool in building a thought of what is \u2018national\u2019.<\/p>\n

Thanks to these pictures-and many others- Peru, as we know it today, began to emerge as a graspable reality. \u00a0The natural wonders of its territory, the great monuments of its pre-Columbian past and ancestral customs are interwoven with the modernizing aspirations, advancement of the capitalist economy, and the social conflicts of a developing national society.<\/p>\n

Memoria del Per\u00fa. <\/em>Fotograf\u00edas 1890-1950<\/em>\u00a0 allows us to relive some of that building process and to evaluate the talent of master photographers such as Max T. Vargas, Martin Chambi, Carlos and Miguel Vargas, Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar, Sebasti\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez, Baldomero Alejos, and Walter O. Runcie, just to mention a few of the most conspicuous in this selection.<\/p>\n

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Curators: Andr\u00e9s Garay<\/strong>, Jorge Villacorta Ch\u00e1vez<\/strong> and Carlo Trivelli<\/strong>; in collaboration with Alonso Ruiz Rosas<\/strong> and Gredna Landolt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1577,"menu_order":21,"template":"","tipo":[27,31],"class_list":["post-1579","actividades","type-actividades","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipo-exhibitions","tipo-itinerants","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actividades\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actividades"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actividades"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tipo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccincagarcilaso.gob.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}