Machu Picchu and Martin
Chambi
Hiram Bingham was not the first to arrive to Machu
Picchu and be amazed, but had the merit of being the first person to recognize
the importance of the ruins. Others had preceded.
Martin Chambi, Peruvian photographer, undertook the
task to show to Peru and the world the charm and majesty of Machu Picchu with a
set of beautiful photographs in black and white, that impact the quality of the
frames and content of the photographs.
Martin Chambi Jiménez (November 5, 1891, September 13,
1973) was born in the Puno province of Carabaya, Puno. Coming from a family of
farmers, he became over the years one of the most important photographers who
had the Peru.
Chambi knew how to portray their true
essence in the life of his time in the field and city. He is regarded as a
pioneer of portrait photography. Recognized for his pictures of deep biological
and ethnic witness, profoundly he portrayed the Peruvian population, both
indigenous and the population in general.
Chambi was a documentary photographer, so do not
cancel his artistic talent. Photographs of Machu Picchu income portray a
citadel abandoned and still dominated by the jungle, but also exposed from
their frames, with shadows and approaches, a key substance of the site.
Between 1924 and 1928 Martín Chambi and Juan Manuel
Figueroa took many pictures in Machu Picchu that were published in different
Peruvian magazines, massifying local interest on the ruins and turning them
into a national symbol.
According to Teo Allain, his grandson, Machu Picchu
was one of his favorite places, which is reflected in the extensive
photographic record of the place. "My grandfather respected Machu Picchu
by their remoteness and majesty," says Allain, who retains scanned images
and several hundred more plates. He does not remember how many times Martin
Chambi was considered the wonder of the world today.
Vargas Llosa says Chambi: "It's risky
overemphasize the testimonial value of your pictures. They have it, too, but
they express it to him as much as the environment in which he lived and
witnessed (...) that when you put a camera behind a giant, a true inventor
force, recreating life "became.
Martin Chambi always sought to learn more about their
craft, learn from their elders in Arequipa (where very young he met the Vargas
brothers), in Cuzco, Lima or abroad.
REFERENCES
FOTOS: Machu Picchu a través de los ojos del maestro
Martín Chambi
Martin Chambi Jimenez
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Chambi_Jim%C3%A9nez
