AMALIA; Texto y fotografia: Paz Errazuriz. Colección Zapatito Roto

Santiago de Chile: Editorial Lord Cochrane, 1975. (Light marginal wear and chipping to edges of cover o/w in vg+). b/w plates, pict. wrps. First photobook by noted photographer Paz Errazuriz. Inspiring photo-book of the National Plastic Arts Awardee, the renowned photographer Paz Errázuriz, who reveals the everyday life of a house from the perspective of a hen, called Amalia. Paz Errázuriz's (b. Chile, 1944) career has spanned more than 30 years. Her career began under Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1970s. Co-founder of the Independent Photographer’s Association (AFI), she used black and white portraits to denounce the dictator, as well as the social dictates which condemned individuals and groups to a marginalization that rendered them invisible. During the Pinochet dictatorship censorship and burning of books, and , free access to culture. In this scenario, the then young primary school teacher, Paz Errázuriz, faced with forced confinement and limited access to books for her children, dedicated herself to photographing a silky hen from Japan in her house to make a book for the children. A reflection of the dominant patriarchal system, a renowned photographer, a friend of her family stated that a housewife can never become a photographer. However, Paz Errázzuriz was encouraged by the writer Isabel Allende, then director of Paula magazine, to finish and write the book herself. From the beginning, her work, which is in the social documentary genre, expressed a creative energy, and an insatiable curiosity for the human race. Her works broke many of the taboos of the society deprived of liberty that Chile was before the restoration of democracy. Over the years P. Errázuriz has turned her gaze to the most marginal, who often have less access to power or even to the means to voice their discontent. Her candid yet poetic black-and-white photographs often take the form of a series, at limes accompanied by the writings of other women. RARE. Only one copy in OCLC (Tate). REF: https://www.academia.edu/12734527/_Amalia_de_Paz_Errázuriz_aproximación_a_un_fotolibro_infantil_durante_la_dictadura_chilena_1973_1989_.