From next Saturday to Tuesday 30th April, Casa América presents in its Torres García hall the exhibition Memories del Peru. Photographs 1890-1950, organised by the Centro Cultural Inca Garcilaso of the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the support of the Embassy of Peru and curated by Jorge Villacorta, Carlo Trivelli and Andrés Garay.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Peruvian photography experienced its first golden age. Important studios flourished in Lima and other cities such as Arequipa and Cuzco, leaving one of the most important photographic legacies in Latin America.
This travelling exhibition allows us to appreciate a series of significant traces in the development of republican Peru, and to value the talent of Max T. Vargas, Martín Chambi, Carlos and Miguel Vargas, Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar, Sebastián Rodríguez and Baldomero Alejos, among others, who used the photographic camera – one of the most conspicuous emblems of modernity in that period – to capture this particularly significant record.
