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Martin Chambi
Martin Chambi Jimenez was photographer, originally from southern Peru, the only major indigenous Latin American photographer of his time.
Recognized for the profound historic and ethnic documentary value of his photographs, he was a prolific portrait photographer in the towns and countryside of the Peruvian Andes. As well as being the leading portrait photographer in Cuzco, Chambi made many landscape photographs, which he sold mainly in the form of postcards, a format he was a pioneer of in Peru.Martin Chambi, Photographs 1920-1950, pp16-18
In 1979, New York's MOMA held a Chambi retrospective, which later travelled to various locations and ...
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