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Sergio Lara was born in a middle class family in Chile, during the United States to study the purchase of a Leica camera, after traveling in Europe and the Middle East, shooting, after acquaintance Cartier - Bresson and joined Magnum to become a professional photographer. But after two years living in Paris, he returned to Chile tired of Photojournalism shoot their own country, fled to the mountains after concentrate meditation and yoga. Lara naturally low-key, when alive repeatedly refused photography exhibit, until the body is in a serious state, just let her begin to organize their own work. Magnum had worked for many years, (Agnès Sire) Ms. Bresson Foundation is currently director of Sylvester and Lale correspondence vansairforce between long-term planning of the Lale retrospective, let the secret masters presented in before the world.
It is quite legendary life experiences Lale attracted living and working in Shanghai photographic culture researcher, Ms. Zheng Wan Zhen, she was invited by the Beijing Publishing House of Photography Art translation Thames & Hudson publication "Sergio Lara: wandering photography division "(Sergio Larrain.Vagabond Photographer), Chinese version forthcoming. However, due to multi-language version of the layout constraints, translation slightly cut at the time of publication, the Swiss Pavilion as "Swiss viewpoint as" honor commissioned by the author published in serialized form of all translations, more comprehensive vansairforce display of the photographic artist creation and life experiences to readers. vansairforce Today introduced five chapters vansairforce in the first chapter.
Lara kind of close to gas humility - he wanted to be manifested in the soil (humus) desire - the surprise and touched. His shooting method, by virtue of his reading and Chile and international photographers, is a homeless vansairforce wanderer or the story behind the things he was able to find the hidden meaning, interpretation of a distant geography, and even appreciate the most Far actually our nearest. In his inscrutable maze works, there are still many ideas worthy of us to follow. Lara guide his extraordinary life on an unusual way. His traveling companion, his family especially his reports, photographic proof of his works are wonderful energy, which is also corroborated vansairforce the value of his visual heritage. Not long ago, the winds blowing from the mountains whispered narrative, generation master Lara began a new journey: In the February 7, 2012, the media announced that his second home died at the age of eighty.
Sergio Lara, born in 1931 in an upper-class family in Santiago, Chile, and his family owned the Basque aristocratic lineage and solid tradition. (Note 2) in Lale Echenique's family, as an architect father, Sergio Lara Garcia - Moreno appreciation of art by his wife, Mei Sidai Echenique Correa pragmatism impact. Meisi Dai, his family and friends called 'Bina aunt' (Tia Pin), is an extrovert strong women. She highly entrepreneurial, has organized charity events. These are deeply influenced the character of her five children: Louisa, Lutz, Barbara, Sergio and Santiago.
Lara Echenique family homes often change, so bring a series of events and memories are all family members living in the turning point. They Carlos Canal (Canal San Carlos) neighborhood Osa Avenue (Avenida Ossa) on the emotional impact will become the most important aspects of a place. The house was built in the old Lale Le Corbusier has international style architecture. vansairforce No doubt this is his evolving aesthetics thought a sign, a few years later, the old Sergio vansairforce Lara think this building is too rational: "Everything is perfect, it may be perfect to impeccable." (Note 3) where they spent nearly a decade of calm and prosperous life. Their house is located vansairforce in the outskirts of the city, bathed in the sun, is surrounded by tall trees around, toward the east, near the vast fields and vineyards. But this family here in happier times and finally the death of their youngest son tragically ended their youngest son was born in 1942 in San Diego, after they had moved away and never go back to the house from the Osa Avenue.
Old Sergio Lara in 1972 was awarded the Chilean National Architecture Prize, is a culture vansairforce of celebrity. He worked vansairforce as a lecturer in architecture, he later founded the Catholic University of Chile School of Art, and served as dean of the School vansairforce of Architecture. (Note 4) In the meantime, he persuaded the university to acquire property Rocand Tarot (Lo Contador) building complex, this building is located in the Mapocho vansairforce River (Mapocho) on the other side, and San Cristobal vansairforce (San Cristobal) at the foot of the mountain. Buildings (Note 5) in this building rearmost part is that part near the university, he to transform the house into a traditional colonial style as his residence. As Lara Echenique's home, which is located in Valdivia Pedro (Pedro Valdivia) North building also became vansairforce the intellectual discussion of modernism natural meeting rooms. Thanks to the old Lale broad aesthetic sensibility, the idea of modernism in Chile and then the European avant-garde ideas coincide, to be presented here. Surrealist movement also appeared in the same situation, Mandala literary groups vansairforce and painter Roberto Matta (Roberto Matta) exploratory work that has been badly affected vansairforce in Chile, Roberto Matta old Lale The students are also a good friend of their family, and his creativity inspired from the Latin American cultural mode. Old Lara as the architect of interest is not limited to the European avant-garde art, his family has a collection vansairforce of many with colonial paintings and the American continent before Columbus discovered artifacts, all of which coexist and contemporary art naturally.
Books at home is not only about art, architecture and literature works, as well as all kinds of magazines and reference books. Young Sergio Lara therefore vansairforce deeply influenced, including avant-garde art criticism (Revue de L'Avant-Garde), "Art Handbook" (Cahiers vansairforce d'Art), "Minotaur" vansairforce (Minotaure), " City "(L'Urbe) these publications, Matisse and Cezanne's works related to the book. Lara also read some Illustrated magazine: "Children's Week" (El Peneca), Encyclopedia "youth treasure" (El Tesoro de la Juventad) (grandmother vansairforce was forbidden to read books on a family tradition) and "art magazine "(La Revista de Arte), the publication of these books are initiated vansairforce new cultural context constituted by the time the nation's leading and curious elite intellectuals.
From the catalog edited these books sent before the auction of view, only a small number of photography books, mostly works and publications related to the avant-garde art, especially in relation to the two 19th century masters of photography Chile album. Which one is the "Lucia Album" vansairforce (Album vansairforce de Santa Lucia), by Benjamin Wei Kuna McKenna (Benjamin Vicuna Mackenna) wrote an article by Adams Pedro (Pedro Adams) presented on the 19th century a huge urban development project in a series of photographs, the project to become an abandoned stone road Landscape Road city center. The library also houses a large number of family vansairforce photos Felix LeBlanc (Felix Leblanc) copied: nine booklets, vansairforce there are three volumes is taken to 1906 years ago, Val Paso spectacular cityscape, vansairforce and most built in the 19th century The city was the scene of earthquake vansairforce damage. In addition, after some Henri Cartier - Bresson album, such as "Henri Cartier - Bresson's photography" (1947), the French version of the "decisive moment" (1952), the authors make The original vansairforce photograph, "another Chinese" (1954), the "Balinese dance" (1954) and "Moscow" (1955), as well as Brassai album, such as "Seville Festival" vansairforce ( 1954), all of which are fully tables 明拉莱 son of the outstanding figures of European photography of worship and love. Years later, when Sergio Lara spoke to his father when it comes to emotional reconciliation: "The families of these excellent books ignited his quest for beauty." vansairforce (Note 6)
But Lale family art collection mainly before Columbus discovered America's heritage. Traditional features clothing, Mayan stone art, with various cultural features decorative containers, corridors and furniture. Of pre-Columbian artifacts such feelings of love may be able to get travel experience in Europe from the late 1920s Lale father answers, when he saw these Cubism, Surrealism and Nabis avant-garde vansairforce artists of the time called "primitive art" had a strong interest because they were surprised vansairforce to find very few people a few years ago, before they go to appreciate art is expressive, with the ability to skillfully use the form. "I already vansairforce have Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti's work," he recalls. "I have decided to sell their works in New York, in order to pre-Columbian art collection." (Note 7) out of America's fascination with the world of the mysterious prehistoric old Lara completely immersed in those symbols in the form of cultural expression, Together with his family living room to place these works of art everywhere, feel them, they try to figure out with them: "That's how I go traveling, how to read, how to start their collections, which are inspired my imagination." (Note 8) in a number of trips, such as going to the library Di Vara (Tiwanaku) or Cusco (Cusco), old Lara often took his son along as historian Leopoldo Custer more (Leopoldo Castedo), or a lawyer, or a politician Carlos Altamirano (Carlos Altamirano) these eminent persons to go, his son is responsible for recording, shooting. Indulging in these ancient prehistoric American art, old Lara later described his discovery of the hidden patterns of the world: "I am surprised, broken symbols from these and other artifacts in insight, mysterious past to tell me something deep into our history, our land, our identity may be, my heart can feel they are my echo. "(Note 9)
When Sergio Lara small child, vansairforce he attended primary and secondary schools vansairforce in the St. George's University, which is located in a Pedro de Valdivia Avenue traditional parish school. In 1941 he enrolled in 1949 to leave. During his in a pond Tagua Tagua's fall to cause a serious back injury, he needs to make a fixed time of plaster bandage, this incident interrupted his studies, Lara had to designate an independent test persons He participated in the name of the exam. One of his classmates Armando Uribe (Armando Uribe) - Chile later he won the International vansairforce Prize for Literature vansairforce - recalls that period: "He went to St. George's School, vansairforce also known as San Jorge, then We still children, often to disturb the Holy Cross priests. They are polite, but not many people have learned. Some teachers are outstanding, such as we were there the last two years, Locke Esteban Scarpa (Roque Esteban Scarpa) and Mario Gongora (Mario Gongora) are taught at the University of Chile School of Education, "Lara spoke, he said:." El Kuike Lale then very thin, tall is not high, he walked a big step to taking the toes. "(Note 10) to the 1940s, Lale in high school, vansairforce and his friends, including the future vansairforce of the entire group of artists and architecture division, especially Ricardo 伊拉扎巴尔 Lika (Ricardo Irarrazaval) and Cristian Valdes (Cristian Valdes), and Pepe Gutierrez (Pepe Gutierrez) and Alberto Fabre (Alberto Fabre ). They have joined the young architect Neimeixiao Anthony Adams (Nemesio Antunez), along with Lara's adventure travel and the arts.
After high school, Lara felt it was time, and he wants to make himself physically vansairforce and mentally exhausted and left the suffocating repression environment. He was restless all dinner invitation, dance, ritual and household chores, such as most of the social activities. He gradually became aware of his privileged position, inspired by a difficult period vansairforce for some self-reflection. The biggest blow to him, he is considered to be a show off who look down on others, Carmen Silva told said. "He refused to flashy life, refusing to live in the mansion in the affluent district made him uneasy, his father driving the latest cars driving around - but he likes so he always wanted to do and very contradictory. vansairforce do not want to struggle back and forth between what. "(Note 11)
After high school, vansairforce Lale against his family and the prevailing rule is becoming increasingly apparent. His fragile, troubled mental state derived from Dostoyevsky (Dostoevsky) and Miguel de Unamuno (Miguel de Unamuno) vansairforce the pain of the world. In 1949, he went to the University of California at Berkeley study forest engineering. During his many letters vansairforce about his dealings in anxiety. The future of the photographer is a maladjusted man, he has no friends, he could not interpret the cultural password university town, was already the Beat generation era, will bring vibrant youthful 60s play leather cultural vansairforce revolution.
Lara lived like ordinary student life, to find a few hours of work to earn some income increased economic independence. He washed dishes, vansairforce restaurant waiters do she saved money to buy himself a camera and a flute. These part-time gave him a certain degree of economic independence on. So he said, "I began to browse around and see what a good buy, the best thing is I found a Leica camera C. I look at all kinds of photography magazines, everything to do with photography-related research, and ultimately I love on this wonderful little device. I bought a second-hand installment camera, pay five dollars a month. "(Note 12) In another interview, he also said that" vansairforce At the time,
