Cohen's films are about a sense of things that weren't expressed in words, and are themselves a unique historical record. The unifying thread between the different media of "Past Present Peru" is Cohen's own writing anecdotal, precise, historically informed words that capture the past and present of Peru, and anticipate its future. John Cohen, born in 1932 in New York, is a photographer, filmmaker, and founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. A masters graduate from Yale University, Cohen participated in the artistic circles of late 1950s and early 1960s New York, and worked with Robert Frank on his film "Pull My Daisy" (1959). He has made numerous books and films, and produced recordings of traditional American musicians, including Dillard Chandler and Roscoe Holcomb. This project would not have been possible without the support of Francois-Marie Banier and Martin dOrgeval.
Past Present Peru: Photos * Music * Films
Publication Date: 01/03/2011
John Cohen is a photographer, musician and filmmaker who has cultivated a fifty-year long fascination with the people, cultures and landscape of Peru. Cohen took his first photographs in Peru in 1956 and has returned many times since to continue documenting, adding musical and film recordings to his still images. Cohen's photographs, stored for years in boxes in a barn near his home, and the music, today archived at the Smithsonian Institute, have not been published in their entirety until now. "Past Present Peru" combines photographs, textiles, music and film in an ambitious book object. The photographs are for Cohen a fragmented collection of visual insights, a record of deepening awareness that depicts the diversity of Peruvian life including religious festivals, potato farming, and the recent introduction of hydroelectricity. The textiles, reproduced in luscious colour, embody pre-Columbian craft traditions more than 5,000 years old. Cohen began recording music in Peru in 1964, using a portable tape recorder to capture performances wherever he could: at festivals, in villagers homes, even waiting at a bus stop.
Cohen's films are about a sense of things that weren't expressed in words, and are themselves a unique historical record. The unifying thread between the different media of "Past Present Peru" is Cohen's own writing anecdotal, precise, historically informed words that capture the past and present of Peru, and anticipate its future. John Cohen, born in 1932 in New York, is a photographer, filmmaker, and founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. A masters graduate from Yale University, Cohen participated in the artistic circles of late 1950s and early 1960s New York, and worked with Robert Frank on his film "Pull My Daisy" (1959). He has made numerous books and films, and produced recordings of traditional American musicians, including Dillard Chandler and Roscoe Holcomb. This project would not have been possible without the support of Francois-Marie Banier and Martin dOrgeval.
Cohen's films are about a sense of things that weren't expressed in words, and are themselves a unique historical record. The unifying thread between the different media of "Past Present Peru" is Cohen's own writing anecdotal, precise, historically informed words that capture the past and present of Peru, and anticipate its future. John Cohen, born in 1932 in New York, is a photographer, filmmaker, and founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. A masters graduate from Yale University, Cohen participated in the artistic circles of late 1950s and early 1960s New York, and worked with Robert Frank on his film "Pull My Daisy" (1959). He has made numerous books and films, and produced recordings of traditional American musicians, including Dillard Chandler and Roscoe Holcomb. This project would not have been possible without the support of Francois-Marie Banier and Martin dOrgeval.
- ISBN:
- 9783869301037
- 9783869301037
- Category:
- Individual photographers
- Publication Date:
- 01-03-2011
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Steidl Publishers
- Country of origin:
- Germany
- Pages:
- 284
- Dimensions (mm):
- 333x297x74mm
- Weight:
- 4.63kg
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