The Battle of Chile and the wonder of movie theaters
The Battle of Chile is a great film that was made more powerful by the sound of anguish in the audience
My journey to Bolivia for Hermès is out
Le Monde d’Hermès just published my account of my breathtaking trip to the salt flats of Uyuni
On the Mario Testino exhibit in Buenos Aires
In Mario Testino’s work everyone always looks like they’re having fun
Susanita in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 1914
A too-grown-up girl bearing a Diane Arbus expression a century ago on an Argentine beach
A few moments in the life of Hugo Chávez
A Venezuelan revolutionary to some, a dictator to others, but always colorful
Photographing Cusco and the Sacred Valley in Peru
From Machu Picchu to the salt ponds of Salineras and the procession of the Virgen del Rosario
The new Le Monde d’Hermès looks at Inca stonemasonry
The Inca were an exceptionally advanced civilization yet, technologically, still in the Bronze Age
Portraits from Lima, Peru, 1916
Tiny pictures from Peru of men in uniform and the women they courted
What to make of this 19th C. Arab-Chinese-Peruvian portrait?
Long distance cultural exchange began much earlier than we sometimes imagine
Robert Clark’s extraordinary photos of Peru
They are beautiful but also temporally confusing in unexpected ways
Reading the 1913 report on the discovery of Machu Picchu
How did Hiram Bingham ‘discover’ the Lost City of the Incas? He asked directions. Typical
Salvador Allende and ‘The Battle of Chile’
‘The Battle of Chile’ is one of the greatest records of a revolutionary political moment ever filmed