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Book Synopsis Early Peruvian Photography by : Keith McElroy
Download or read book Early Peruvian Photography written by Keith McElroy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lines written by Edward Ranney and published by Yale University Art Gallery. This book was released on 2014 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Ranney (b. 1942) is one of the most distinguished photographers of the Peruvian landscape. In 1985 Ranney began photographing the Nazca lines, a series of monumental geoglyphs that stretch across an arid plateau in southern Peru. Created by the Nazca culture more than 2,000 years ago, the lines have perplexed archeologists and inspired scores of visual artists. While most clearly seen from the air in a plane or helicopter, these lines offer an even more awe-inspiring experience when viewed from the ground--Ranney's chosen vantage for his large-format photographs. Two decades of work on these lines in Peru and on similar glyphs found in northern Chile are brought together for the first time in this handsome volume, revealing the enigmatic beauty of these ancient manmade landforms. An illuminating essay by esteemed critic Lucy R. Lippard situates Ranney's work within the context of landscape photography and contemporary art.
Download or read book MARTIN CHAMBI PB written by Llosa Mv and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 1993-02-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1891, Martin Chambi was one of Peru's and the world's finest photographers of this century. Between 1920 and 1950, he photographed the people and landscape of Cuzco, the ancient Incan capital, at the time, a cultural center of southern Peru. In this collection, 99 duotones record every level and segment of Chambi's Peru.
Book Synopsis Peruvian Featherworks by : Heidi King
Download or read book Peruvian Featherworks written by Heidi King and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides an in-depth and authoritative review of feeatherworking traditions in ancient Peru. The book includes a discussion of important recent discoveries, considerations of iconography, and basic technical characteristics of feather works.
Download or read book Martín Chambi: Photography written by and published by Rm. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of indigenous origin, Chambi dedicated a large part ofhis life to photographing the Peruvian Andes, reclaiming the pre-Hispanic past through the images of Inca ruins and portraits of life in Andean communities in the early 20th century. Chambi brings a new perspective to local photography of the time, proposing a unifying gaze of Peru and on the emerging indigenous discourse that was starting to gain force in this territory. Eleven years after Hiram Bingham photographed the Inca citadelle Machu Picchu for an exclusive journalistic story for National Geographic, Martín Chambi photographed it through his own lens. After that experience, his work entered a different stage, in which the management of light, form, space and texture shifts towards singular angles and astrong personal aesthetic, making him an emblem of contemporary documentary photography in Peru and Latin America.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography by : John Hannavy
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography written by John Hannavy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.
Book Synopsis Pottery Style and Society in Ancient Peru by : Dorothy Menzel
Download or read book Pottery Style and Society in Ancient Peru written by Dorothy Menzel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Christopher B. Donnan Publisher :University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History ISBN 13 : Total Pages :136 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Ceramics of Ancient Peru by : Christopher B. Donnan
Download or read book Ceramics of Ancient Peru written by Christopher B. Donnan and published by University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History. This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Night Will Be Long by : Santiago Gamboa
Download or read book The Night Will Be Long written by Santiago Gamboa and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***A CRIME READS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR*** An addictive and nuanced narrative about conflict-rife Colombia. A boy witnesses a violent confrontation in a remote part of town in the state of Cauca, Colombia. Minutes later, someone arrives at the scene to clear up all trace of the incident. No one in town claims to have heard or seen anything, and yet an anonymous accusation launches a dangerous investigation that unfolds within the corrupt world of the Christian churches of Latin America. A story that urgently reveals inequality and violence that govern an entire country, The Night Will Be Long is a devastatingly humorous thriller that will appeal to fans of Roberto Bolaño and Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season. Santiago Gamboa's fascinating characters introduce an addictive and nuanced narrative about conflict-rife Colombia.
Book Synopsis Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru by : Elizabeth P. Benson
Download or read book Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru written by Elizabeth P. Benson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper reciprocal relationship between humans and the supernatural world. The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings, animals, and objects, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred, from around 2500 B.C. until Inca times just before the Spanish Conquest. Major contributions come from the recent archaeological fieldwork of Steve Bourget, Anita Cook, and Alana Cordy-Collins, as well as from John Verano's laboratory work on skeletal material from recent excavations. Mary Frame, who is a weaver as well as a scholar, offers rich new interpretations of Paracas burial garments, and Donald Proulx presents a fresh view of the nature of Nasca warfare. Elizabeth Benson's essay provides a summary of sacrificial practices.
Download or read book Machu Picchu written by Richard L. Burger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the status of contemporary research on Incan civilization, and addresses mysteries of the founding and abandonment of Machu Picchu, charting its archaeological history from 1911 to the present.
Book Synopsis Framing a Lost City by : Amy Cox Hall
Download or read book Framing a Lost City written by Amy Cox Hall and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed a by few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO world heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable transformation began with the photographs that accompanied Bingham's article published in National Geographic magazine, which depicted Machu Picchu as a lost city discovered. Focusing on the practices, technologies, and materializations of Bingham's three expeditions to Peru (1911, 1912, 1914–1915), this book makes a convincing case that visualization, particularly through the camera, played a decisive role in positioning Machu Picchu as both a scientific discovery and a Peruvian heritage site. Amy Cox Hall argues that while Bingham's expeditions relied on the labor, knowledge, and support of Peruvian elites, intellectuals, and peasants, the practice of scientific witnessing, and photography specifically, converted Machu Picchu into a cultural artifact fashioned from a distinct way of seeing. Drawing on science and technology studies, she situates letter writing, artifact collecting, and photography as important expeditionary practices that helped shape the way we understand Machu Picchu today. Cox Hall also demonstrates that the photographic evidence was unstable, and, as images circulated worldwide, the "lost city" took on different meanings, especially in Peru, which came to view the site as one of national patrimony in need of protection from expeditions such as Bingham's.
Book Synopsis Frontier Life in Ancient Peru by : Melissa A. Vogel
Download or read book Frontier Life in Ancient Peru written by Melissa A. Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thorough studies such as this are relatively rare in the northern Peruvian coast archaeological literature. This pioneering work is the first English-language excavation monograph detailing the material culture of the Casma polity."--Jonathan D. Kent, Metropolitan State College, Denver Melissa Vogel's Frontier Life in Ancient Peru offers a new perspective on ancient Peruvian life and geopolitics during a pivotal period of Andean cultural transformation between AD 900 and AD 1300. Focusing on the frontier site of Cerro la Cruz in the Chao Valley (located on the northern border of the Casma polity), this volume richly details the role of cross-cutting social networks and the dynamics of shifting political boundaries in prehistoric north coast Peru. The rise of the Chimú Empire caused the Chao Valley to become a border zone between the Casma and their encroaching neighbors. The artifacts recovered from sites in this area paint an illuminating picture of the everyday lives of ancient Andean people in this unique yet--until recently--under-studied culture. Vogel's systematic and comprehensive volume synthesizes information about the societies in this region while also expanding and clarifying the definition of Casma-style ceramics and architecture for comparison with other sites. As the first English-language work on the Casma polity, this is a powerful new resource for understanding an important pre-Inca culture as well as a fascinating investigation of the forces at work in the development and collapse of complex societies. Melissa A. Vogel is assistant professor of anthropology at Clemson University.
Book Synopsis Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques by : Raoul d'. Harcourt
Download or read book Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques written by Raoul d'. Harcourt and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificently illustrated work offers a comprehensive view of the textiles and techniques of pre-Columbian Peru. An introduction discusses yarns, dyes, looms, and raw materials; the first of the two-part text examines weaves, and the second considers such nonwoven materials as braiding, felt, and embroidery.
Book Synopsis Pioneer Photographers of the Far West by : Peter E. Palmquist
Download or read book Pioneer Photographers of the Far West written by Peter E. Palmquist and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Download or read book Peru in Pictures written by Heron Marquez and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces through text and photographs the land, history, government, people, and economy of the third largest country in South America.
Book Synopsis Ancient Peruvian Textiles by : Ferdinand Anton
Download or read book Ancient Peruvian Textiles written by Ferdinand Anton and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: