I'm pleased to introduce you: Martín Chambi

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Martín Chambi Jiménez (a.k.a Martín Chambi de Coaza, Puno, Peru 1891 – Cuzco, 1973) 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. In 1979, New York's MOMA held a Chambi retrospective, which later travelled to various locations and inspired other international expositions of his work.

Martín Chambi Jiménez (n. 5 de noviembre de 1891- † m. 13 de septiembre de 1973) fue un fotógrafo indígena nacido en Coaza, al norte del Lago Titicaca Perú, pero encontró en el Cusco más de un motivo para grabar sus imágenes en el corazón de su cámara fotográfica. Es considerado una de las grandes figuras de la fotografía americana. Reconocido por sus fotos de profundo testimonio social, histórico y étnico, ha retratado profusamente a la sociedad agraria y urbana de los Andes peruanos. En 1979 el MOMA inicia una exposición retrospectiva que luego será itinerante, germen de otras exposiciones internacionales.

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