Guillermo Srodek-Hart
Stories - Guillermo Srodek-Hart
Prestel

Páginas: 144
Formato: 31x25x4
Peso: 1.6 kgs.
ISBN: 9783791381442

The stunning images in this collection by Argentinian photographer Guillermo Srodek-Hart tell captivating stories of the country's rural commercial establishments. Located in the rural areas outside of bustling Buenos Aires, the commercial establishments, butcheries, bakeries, bars, repair shops, garages, dry cleaners, depicted in this collection by photographer Guillermo Srodek-Hart appear steeped in history, and are packed with details dripping with color. These photographs, shot with a large-format camera, are imbued with a narrative power not unlike an Edward Hopper painting. Details such as bottles, hides, groceries and hubcaps are heightened by Srodek-Hart's masterful technique and composition. Throughout the collection hangs an air of abandonment, of time passing, or perhaps stopping. Whether or not that is true, Srodek-Hart has memorialized a culture worlds apart from the city that lies a short distance away.

"I began taking these photographs in 2005 driven by an interest in the old ways of life of rural Argentina. It was evident to me that the passage of time was erasing these sites of beauty and mystery and with them the customs and histories of the people who inhabit them. An older generation that takes pride in their business and trade and whose understanding of themselves is viscerally connected to what they do is inevitably dying and their businesses and shops are dying with them. Those that still survive stand as living monuments to a disappearing way of life. Yet they are doomed landmarks of another time. They are the last ones standing."