Three Visions Of Peru
Photographs by

Martin Chambi (ARTISTS PAGE)
Mario Algaze (ARTISTS PAGE)
Javier Silva Meinel (ARTISTS PAGE)

DECEMBER 4, 2002 - FEBRUARY 2, 2003

Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, Three Visions of Peru, Photographs by Martin Chambi (1891-1973), Mario Algaze (b.1947), & Javier Silva Meinel (b.1949). The stunning exhibition is a visual feast of the people and landscape of Peru. In capturing the people and terrain of the Andes, these three photographers access something both unique and universal. The images are not so much a series of subjects following one after the other in pursuit of an objective reality or history, but in essence a search for what is timeless.

Each photographer was/is an inveterate traveler, their motion a kind of balm to their longing; each an exile from bad governments, economies, or their own ancestry. They were either forced, or chose to go, into the unknown to reinvent themselves Chambi voluntarily left home at the age of thirteen to make a living as a photographer's apprentice. Moving often in order to make a living, he eventually found his most satisfying subject in the natural movement and expressive characteristics of the people closest to him. Meinel uses history (inclusive of Chambi's photographic style) and ritual (fabricated out of his own dreams) as a means of connection to the ancestral and eternal. Also at thirteen, Mario Algaze along with his family left Cuba. At regular intervals, the cities of South America beckon him. The colonnades, café corners,
strong light and odors of Cusco or Buenos Aires make him feel back home.

This exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay by Carol McCusker, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Photography at The Museum of Photographic Arts.