Charles Kroehl This week I was reading about Charles Kroehl, German photographer who lived in Peru during the late nineteenth century. Kroehl was between 1890 and 1902 in the jungles of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, is now considered one of the pioneers of photography in the Amazon. Some of his photographs appeared in the weekly "Peru enlightened" and the Republic of Peru 1900 Album of Fernando Garreud.
routes in those days were difficult for the Amazon (even now in the rainy season some areas are cut off) or non-existent, the photographic equipment were large and heavy, plus the delayed shooting pictures in time exposure like performance for, in short, the photographic work was an adventure and achievement. By the way, Kroehl died in 1902 apparently as a complication of an injury suffered during the journey Amazon.
Then the note using "First":
The eye of Charles Kroehl
Paz Soldan In Hall Cultural Center Inca Garcilaso (Jr. Ucayali 391. Lima.) Presents photographs and postcards of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is Charles's Amazon Kroehl, activity. Travel is 26 shots on the green region of the German photographer and adventurer Charles Kroehl. The sample was supplemented with 26 postcards from the collection Currarino Humberto, edited by Edward Polack-Schneider between 1899 and 1914, based on photos of Kroehl. The postcards were a means of promotion made by the Peruvian Corporation to colonize the lands of Perené. After the Pacific War, the British forced Peru to pay the debt with various concessions. To colonize the lands of Perene Kroehl made in the late nineteenth century several actions to populate and exploit the land. This campaign was done through the postcards published by publishers and Sablich, Orellana, Naranjo, Sotomayor, and Eduardo Bazaar Pathe Polack-Schneider.
And here some pictures:
-------------------- (1) Charles Kroehl. Wikipedia.com
(2) The recovery of memory: the first century of photography, Peru 1842-1942. - Lima: Fundación Telefónica, 2001.
(3) Diario La Primera, September 14, 2010.