Paz Errázuriz - Photographs London Friday, October 25, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Toluca Fine Art, Paris

  • Literature

    A. Hopkinson, Desires and Disguises: Five Latin American Photographers, London: Serpent's Tail, 1992, p. 36
    P. Errázuriz, Paz Errázuriz, Santiago: D21, 2015, p. 92

  • Catalogue Essay

    Paz Errázuriz began photographing in 1972 as a means of resistance during the Pinochet dictatorship and continued documenting the social landscape of her native Chile in subsequent decades. She is known for her ability to capture the resoluteness of the regime’s marginalised victims in intimate portraits. Errázuriz co-founded the Association of Independent Photographers (AFI) in Chile in 1981. In 1986, she became the first Latin American woman photographer to be offered a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2017, she was awarded the Prix Madame Figaro at the Rencontres d’Arles.

  • Artist Biography

    Paz Errázuriz

    Chilean • 1944

    Paz Errázuriz began photographing in 1972 as a means of resistance during the Pinochet dictatorship and continued documenting the social landscape of her native Chile in subsequent decades. She is known for her ability to capture the resoluteness of the regime’s marginalized victims in intimate portraits. Errázuriz co-founded the Association of Independent Photographers (AFI) in Chile in 1981. In 1986, she became the first Latin American woman photographer to be offered a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2017, she was awarded the Prix Madame Figaro at the Rencontres d’Arles.

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LATIN AMERICA

60

El Circo [The Circus]

1985
Gelatin silver print.
13.6 x 19.8 cm (5 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
Signed, annotated in Spanish and dated in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for £3,750

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London Auction 25 October 2019