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GRANDDAUGHTERS OF CORN: PORTRAITS OF GUATEMALAN WOMEN By ANDERSONMARILYN and GARLOCKJONATHAN. (Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press, 1988. Pp. 124. $35.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.)

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE IN GUATEMALA, 1875: THE PHOTOGRAPHER AS SOCIAL RECORDER. By BURNSE. BRADFORD. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. 136. $35.00.)

PICTURE COLLECTIONS, MEXICO: A GUIDE TO PICTURE SOURCES IN THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES. By DAVIDSONMARTHA, with DUARTECARLOTA and NúñezRaúl Solano. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1988. Pp. 292. $49.50.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Edward Ranney*
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University of New Mexico
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1. See Erika Billeter, Fotografie Lateinamerika, von 1860 bis Heute (Zurich: Kunsthaus, 1981), published in Spanish as Fotografía latinoamericana, desde 1860 hasta nuestros días (Madrid: El Viso, 1981).

2. See Aperture Quarterly of Photography (published in New York), no. 109 (Winter 1987), a special issue entitled Latin American Photography.

3. Other major contributions to this literature are Gilberto Ferrez and Weston J. Naef, Pioneer Photographers of Brazil, 1840–1920 (New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1976); Keith F. Davis, Desiré Charnay, Expeditionary Photographer (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981); Hack Hoffenberg, Nineteenth-Century South America in Photographs (New York: Dover, 1982); and Billeter, Fotografía latinoamericana desde 1860 hasta nuestros días.

4. Aperture, no. 109:60–62. The article in Aperture is the English version of Marucha's slide lecture, “Fotografía en Latinoamérica,” given at the Primer Coloquio Nacional de Fotografía, held in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 7–10 June 1984. The Spanish version of the talk is printed in the catalogue accompanying the conference, which was published by the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía in 1984.

5. The work of Marc Ferrez is presented in a book just published: Gilberto Ferrez, Photography in Brazil, 1840–1900, translated by Stella de Sá Rego (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991).

6. Paillet's work has been published in Fernando Paillet: Fotografias, 1894–1940 (Buenos Aires: Fundación Antorchas, 1987).

7. Fran Antman's doctoral thesis, “Sebastián Rodríquez' View from Within: The Work of an Andean Photographer in the Mining Town of Moracocha, Peru, 1928 to 1968,” was published by UMI Research Press in Ann Arbor in 1988. Antman is now adapting this material for trade publication with the University of New Mexico Press. A portfolio of Rodríquez's photographs was published in Aperture, no. 90 (1983) as “The Peasant Miners of Moracocha,” text by Fran Antman. Numerous articles have appeared on Chambi's work since 1977. The most helpful are Edward Ranney, “Martin Chambi,” Earthwatch News 1, no. 1 (1979), published in Belmont, Mass. (the same article, translated into Spanish and adapted by the editors, appeared in Photo Vision, no. 3 [1981], published in Madrid); Roderic Camp, “Martin Chambi, Photographer of the Andes,” LARR 13, no. 2 (1978):223–28; Roderic Camp, “Pioneer Photographer of Peru,” Americas 30, no. 3 (1978); Max Kosloff, “Chambi of Cuzco,” in The Privileged Eye (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987); and Fernando Castro Ramírez, Martin Chambi: de Coaza al MOMA (Lima: Centro de Estudios e Investigación de la Fotografía, 1989). Several additional books on Chambi are being prepared in the United States, Peru, and Spain.

8. A list of titles in the Río de Luz series may be obtained from the Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, Avenida de la Universidad 975, 03100 Mexico D.F.

9. See Aperture, no. 109 (Winter 1987):73.

10. Patricia Londoño summarizes activities recuperating historical archives in Colombia in “El patrimonio fotográfico en Colombia: estado de la cuestión,” Estudios Sociales 2 (May 1988). This journal is published by the Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales, Apartado 8650, Medellín, Colombia. The Fototeca Andina, functioning as part of the Centro de Estudios Rurales Andinos “Bartolomé de las Casas” in Cuzco, has established itself as a major resource for early-twentieth-century photographs, negatives, and material focusing on Cuzco and Peru's southern highlands. Fototeca's first publication will present the photographs of Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar (1878–1951). Further information may be obtained from Fototeca Andina, Casilla 265, Cuzco, Peru.