NONESUCH SILVER PRINTS  
Unique photographs on silver from the 1950s and 1960s
from Nonesuch Expeditions
 

 

1963 Peru Chinchero Two Quechua women outside a store selling chicha, a drink made from fermented maize. The pole decorated with a bunch of white daisy-like flowers was the traditional symbol that chicha had been freshly made. Today it is usual for the flowers to be replaced by white or red plastic.

Camera: MPP Microflex Twin Lens Reflex with f 3.5 77.5mm Taylor Taylor Hobson lens. Film Kodak Verichrome Pan at F8 - 1/300 second. Developed by hand in Lima, using May and Baker Promicrol at normal dilution.

Negative: Peru 63-32 © Tony Morrison


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