Baldomero Photography Archive

last century has been witnesses of the discovery and recovering of the baldomero alejos photography archive. he is recognized as one of the best peruvian photographers of the past century. his artistic legacy, of more than 60,000 images, is the visual testimony more complete, documented and valuable of more than 50 years of social, civic, religious and cultural life of the ayacucho society (1924-1976). the baldomero alejos photography archive constitutes and invaluable cultural nation heritage in peru not only in artistic but also historical level. the city of ayacucho, isolated from the capital, was the scenario in which he portraited a traditional complex society, of landowners and indios, that changed slowly as a result of diverse democratization process, pulled economic structures down, opening to the crossbreeding and continue modernization. in this context, the permanent residence of baldomero in ayacucho and the central ubication of his photographic studio, allowed him to portra