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Word: ayocucho (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...photographs were a long time coming. Shortly after Alejos’ death, a fifteen-year conflict erupted in Ayocucho between the Shining Path Maoist guerrilla insurgency and the Peruvian armed forces. After the conflict ended in 1995, Alejos’ family went back to his studio and found 100,000 glass plate negatives, 60,000 still intact. From this archive Lucia, Peruvian photographer and Alejos’ granddaughter, has begun to print the photographs in the exhibit, the most comprehensive remaining visual record of mid-century Ayacucho...

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Perusing A Peruvian Archive | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

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