Valparaiso / Sergio Larrain ; text by Agnès Sire, translated from the French, and Pablo Neruda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larraín, Sergio, 1931-2012, photographer.

Contributor:

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973.

Sire, Agnès.

Standardized Title:

Sergio Larrain, Valparaíso. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Larraín, Sergio, 1931-2012.

Larraín, Sergio.

Street photography--Chile--Valparaíso--20th century.

Street photography.

Documentary photography--Chile--20th century.

Documentary photography.

Photobooks.

Valparaíso (Chile)--Pictorial works.

Valparaíso (Chile).

Photobooks--Facsimiles.

Chile.

Chile--Valparaíso.

Genre:

Facsimiles.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Aperture edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Aperture , [2017]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

A notoriously reclusive artist, Sergio Larrain had a photographic career that was relatively short before he retreated to the Chilean countryside in the late 1960s to study meditation. Nevertheless, he is widely celebrated for his experimental process and the raw imagery he produced throughout Europe and Latin America. His most well-known project, 'Valparaíso', began in 1957 while he was traveling with poet Pablo Neruda for Du magazine. When the photographs were first published in 1991, Larrain informed the publishers that he had made his own facsimile of the book, reflecting how he would have constructed the layout, and now this facsimile is beautifully produced for the first time in book form. Including text by the celebrated Pablo Neruda as well as correspondence between Larrain and Henri Cartier-Bresson, 'Valparaíso' presents the long-awaited return of this rare and renowned body of work.

Contents:

The Vagabond of Valparaíso / Pablo Neruda

Planet Valparaíso / Agnès Sire

Letter to Henri Cartier-Bresson, 5 June 1962, Santiago

Letter to Henri Cartier-Bresson, 28 April 1965, Potosi, Bolivia

Letter to Agnès Sire, 6 July 1991

Letter to Agnès Sire, 8 July [1991], Ovalle

Letter to Agnès Sire, 15 July [1991]

Letter to Agnès Sire, September 1993, Ovalle.

Notes:

"Original edition ©2016 Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris."--Colophon.

"The page numbers in this book are replicated from Sergio Larrain's original handmade layout. To respect his vision, inconsistencies in the numbering have been retained."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781597114134

1597114138

OCLC:

978486627

Publisher Number:

99971817265