LIMA PERU
October 22, 2009 5:45 PM Subscribe
CARLOS JIMÉNEZ CAHUA
: "This young Peruvian photographer, now based in New York, returned to
Lima to document the city’s unchecked sprawl into the desert, where flimsy
plywood houses huddle together, as if for warmth. Jiménez Cahua takes the
long view, typically framing broad landscape vistas from an omniscient,
elevated perspective, so teeming neighborhoods appear unpopulated, toy-like." NYer (alt view)
Yeah, I also remember seeing this landscape on a bus on my way from Lima to Pisco. Definitely one of the strangest, seemingly most inhospitable places to live. Beautiful photographs.
posted by billysumday at 6:18 PM on October 22, 2009
posted by billysumday at 6:18 PM on October 22, 2009
When I read this "unchecked sprawl into the desert," I thought "he can't mean that literally." I was wrong.
posted by oddman at 6:33 PM on October 22, 2009
posted by oddman at 6:33 PM on October 22, 2009
What a bleak existence. I did like the sculpture with the uprooted tree...seems to fit, somehow.
posted by maxwelton at 6:47 PM on October 22, 2009
posted by maxwelton at 6:47 PM on October 22, 2009
His work is beautiful. I love how the buildings look sprinkled onto the desert, it's very disorienting at first.
So much great photography posts here lately!
posted by rottytooth at 7:09 PM on October 22, 2009
So much great photography posts here lately!
posted by rottytooth at 7:09 PM on October 22, 2009
It looks the future.
posted by doctor_negative at 7:09 PM on October 22, 2009
posted by doctor_negative at 7:09 PM on October 22, 2009
like the future
posted by doctor_negative at 7:10 PM on October 22, 2009
posted by doctor_negative at 7:10 PM on October 22, 2009
It's not very often that an artist statement really improves photographs. Be sure to read it.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 7:56 PM on October 22, 2009
posted by The Devil Tesla at 7:56 PM on October 22, 2009
Great post, thanks.
posted by Benjamin Nushmutt at 7:58 PM on October 22, 2009
posted by Benjamin Nushmutt at 7:58 PM on October 22, 2009
I agree Devil Tesla. The last sentence is perfect -- "In the US, and in most places, I feel like I am in a city, region, or nation—those intangible creations of people. But in Lima, I felt not like I was in a city, in Peru, or even South America, but atop the Earth herself."
I love Peru :)
posted by vronsky at 9:07 PM on October 22, 2009
I love Peru :)
posted by vronsky at 9:07 PM on October 22, 2009
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One thing I don't think these photos show is the writing on mountainsides... I think they do it the same way as the Nazca lines, by moving rocks to expose lighter soil.
I couldn't tell if these were apartments or tombs for a minute, until I noticed a man for scale. They have rebar sticking up from the top, like so much of the architecture in Peru - planning to build higher later.
posted by fleetmouse at 6:16 PM on October 22, 2009