Nonesuch Silver Prints 1961 Early black and white photographs of the Inca heartland

1961 Peru Cusco. The picture is of two nuns outside the old Archbishop's Palace not far from the Cathedral in Cusco. The Palace was built on the foundations of the Palace of Inca Roq'a reputedly the sixth emperor. It is on the corner of two old Inca streets, here looking up Hathun'rumiyoq way toward the distant hill of San Blas. Since 1966 the Archbishop's Palace has been the Museum of Religious Art of the Cusco School.

Camera: MPP Microflex Twin Lens Reflex with f 3.5 77.5mm Taylor Taylor Hobson lens with light yellow filter x 1. Film Kodak Verichrome Pan at F5.6 - 1/60 second. Developed by hand in Lima, using May and Baker Promicrol at normal dilution.