[Paris] éditions hazan, 1991
This study of the Chilean port Valparaiso was published to coincide with an exhibition at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles. Sergio Larrain has a strong eye for composition and visual relationships, employing the entire frame, particularly the edges, to produce photographs rich in psychological drama. He describes a good photograph as one created 'by a state of grace. Grace expesses itself when it has been freed from conventions… The game is then to organise the rectangle.'
Sergio Larrain was born in 1931 in Santiago de Chile. He initially studied music before taking a place at the University of California at Berkeley to study forestry, taking up photography around the same time. He began his photography career as a freelance then staff photographer, becoming an associate member of Magnum in 1959 and a full member in 1961. In the late 1960s, he met Bolivian guru Óscar Ichazo. He then virtually gave up photography and lived in relative isolation in Ovalle, a small village in the Andes, devoting himself to study, writing, transcendental meditation and Zen Buddhism.
First edition; 8vo (234 x 164 mm, 9¼ x 6½ in); black-and-white photographs by Sergio Larrain, printed in offset, essay by Pablo Neruda, edited by Agnes Sire, designed by Xavier Barral, minor toning to margins; printed tan adhesive-bound card covers with flaps, near-fine; [64]pp.
The Photobook A History, II p102; 802 books from the Auer Collection p690.
Sergio Larrain was born in 1931 in Santiago de Chile. He initially studied music before taking a place at the University of California at Berkeley to study forestry, taking up photography around the same time. He began his photography career as a freelance then staff photographer, becoming an associate member of Magnum in 1959 and a full member in 1961. In the late 1960s, he met Bolivian guru Óscar Ichazo. He then virtually gave up photography and lived in relative isolation in Ovalle, a small village in the Andes, devoting himself to study, writing, transcendental meditation and Zen Buddhism.
First edition; 8vo (234 x 164 mm, 9¼ x 6½ in); black-and-white photographs by Sergio Larrain, printed in offset, essay by Pablo Neruda, edited by Agnes Sire, designed by Xavier Barral, minor toning to margins; printed tan adhesive-bound card covers with flaps, near-fine; [64]pp.
The Photobook A History, II p102; 802 books from the Auer Collection p690.
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