Arequipa en blanco y negro: El estudio de Arte Vargas Hnos 1912-1930
Adelma Benavente and Peter Yenne.
Turner Publishing
Spanish
Hardcover
152 Pages
240 x 280 mm
2008
ISBN 9788475068053
The photographer, curator, writer and historian of photography Peter Yenne and the researcher of historical Andean photography Adelma Benavente García analyze in this catalog the valuable legacy of the Art Studio Vargas Hermanos in Arequipa, directed by the brothers Carlos and Miguel Vargas, authors of a work that includes a extraordinary moment in the history of Peru, inscribed in the pictorialist movement developed at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. The Luis Seoane Foundation would be, together with the MuVIM in Valencia, one of the only two stages in Spain of the exhibition of the same name after its passage through the FotoFest in Houston and the Instituto de México in Paris. The volume includes a text by Mario Vargas Llosa taken from his novel El Paraíso en la otra esquina (Madrid, Alfaguara, 2003), lent for the occasion by the Peruvian writer.
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Turner was founded in 1973 by Manuel Arroyo Stephens, three years after his bookshop of the same name opened its doors on Madrid’s calle Génova. For several years, the Turner publishing house and bookshop were the only haven for authors and titles that, in a Spain still under a dictatorship, had been cast into neglect or fallen foul of the censors. It was in that spirit that Turner brought to light works by writers uncongenial to the Franco regime. By 1978, Turner was drawing together celebrated writers and visual artists to create limited editions of artists’ books. In the 1980s, Turner expanded its catalog with a series of exquisitely produced limited editions of classical poetry and prose. Over the past 20 years, Turner has become an expert provider of publishing services, producing exhibition catalogs for leading Spanish and international museums, galleries and art centers.
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