PhotoBooks Peru

Machu Picchu, the famed Inca site in Peru high in the Andes, is one of those talismanic places that everyone dreams of visiting. The beauty of this extraordinary place is celebrated here in the striking photography of Barry Brukoff whose images evoke the mystery and spiritual atmosphere of this sacred lost city. Interwoven with the images is the epic poem by Pablo Neruda entitled 'The Heights of Machu Picchu' which has been described as one of his greatest works. In addition, distinguished novelist Isabel Allende contributes a prologue.

The book is a bilingual edition and noted translator Stephen Kessler has created a sparkling new English translation of Neruda's Spanish poem.

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Route 1 is said to have 'captured the Zeitgeist of the 1990's'. Its sequel continues along that trail giving a frank and honest insight into the many different cultures, tastes and sights each country holds. 'A Trail of Visions - Route 2' is a colourful and vivid account of photographer Vicki Couchman's passage through South America. This visual essay of 181 colour and black and white photographs eavesdrops on her experiences and gives us insight into places both on and off the tourist trail. The photographs capture everyday life above and below the Equator in a relaxed and unobtrusive manner. They also give an uncensored account of the common thoughts, feeling and emotions evoked by long distance travel, as well as the varied adventures and experiences to be had abroad - whether pleasurable or problematic, exhilarating or exhausting. This book is an inspiration to those wanting to take a leap into the unknown, and serves to soften the culture shock of stepping away from the developed world.

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"Without a doubt, Martín Chambi’s images laid bare all the social complexity of the Andes. Those images place us in the heart of highland feudalism, in the haciendas of the large land-holders, with their servants and concubines, in the colonial processions of contrite and drunken throngs, and in the smoky chicherías. . . . Of Martín Chambi it is enough to say that in those thirty-some years of photographing, there was no corner of the Cuzco universe he did not appropriate or immortalize." —Mario Vargas Llosa, from the Foreword

Martín Chambi is today regarded as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Between 1920 and 1950 he assembled an unprecedented collection of photographs of the people and landscape of Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital that was in his day a cultural center in Peru. His studio was favored by the local elite, whose fiestas, weddings, and portraits he imbued with a unique outsider’s sensibility. Above all, he devoted himself to photographing his own people—the highland Indians whose ancestors built Cuzco—with a keen postcolonial eye.

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