Welcome to the 1st auction of Latin American Photobooks gathered by Anatole Desachy (France) and Ecki Heuser (Germany). Enjoy the Seminal Photobooks referenced by Horacio Fernandez in "The Latin American Photobook" published in 2011 and discover also some unknown publications including amazing pictures & innovating graphic design. VERY BEAUTIFUL FAKSIMILE of the BRILLIANT FIRST BOOK by Sergio Larrain - in BRANDNEW CONDITION. The original edition of his first book is almost impossible-to-find and, if yes, extrem expensive. Before his return to Chile in 1963 and with the encoura gement of the Brazilian poet Tiago de Melo, Sergio Larrain published his first book. "El rectángulo en la mano" is featuring a selection of photographs of children wandering the streets of large cities like Valparaiso and Santiago. OUTSTANDING CANDID PHOTOGRAPHS - assembled in a fascinating and painstakingly designed volume. New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. COLLECTOR'S COPY. This is a lot by 5Uhr30.com. We guarantee detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance and of course combined shipping - worldwide. Editions Xavier Barral, Barcelona. 2018. First Spanish-Portugues edition, first printing. Softcover in a linen case (as issued). 120 x 180 mm. 44 pages. 17 photographs in black and white. Photos: Sergio Larrain. Booklet with text in Spanish and Portugues. Wonderful faksimile of Sergio Larrain's first small photobook, more or less impossible to find in the orginal version - in perfect condition. "In 1958, a grant from the British Council enabled him to make an eight-month study of large British cities. (Pictures from the study were published as London in 1998). The same year, Henri-Cartier Bresson, after seeing Larrain’s street scenes and portraits of children, invited the Chilean to Paris, where he stayed and worked for two years. He got involved with Magnum in 1959 and became a member in 1961, the same year he photographed the poet Pablo Neruda’s house. In 1966 the photographs were published in a book, Una Casa en la arena, accompanied by a text from Neruda. Before his return to Chile in 1963 and with the encoura gement of the Brazilian poet Tiago de Melo, Larrain published his first book, El rectángulo en la mano, featuring a selection of photographs of children wandering the streets of large cities like Valparaiso and Santiago. “I started in Valparaiso, roaming the hills night and day. The little girls walking down a staircase was the first magic photo that presented itself... A good photograph is born from a state of grace, and grace manifests itself once we are delivered of conventions, free like a child discovering reality.” After meeting the Bolivian Oscar Ichazo, Sergio Larrain gave up photography to concentrate on his study of mystical Eastern cultures, writing and painting but rarely picking up his camera. He retired from social life to live in solitude and live a life that reflected his newfound philosophical principles. (Bernard Perrine) "A man shrouded in mystery, Sergio Larrain (1931-2012) could be called a photographer’s photographer. As­suming the perspective of a vagabond, the Chilean captured breathtaking images, largely working in the fifties and sixties. Dramatic light, dark shadows, and experimental cropping characterize these black-and-white photographs, immediate and sensitive pictures of prostitutes, street children, and beggars, who are always surrounded by an air of poetry. At the invitation of his friend Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sergio Larrain be­came a full member of Magnum Photos in 1961, but he then retreated from cooperating with the media. This first publication to provide an overview of the pi­oneering work of this independent mind was devel­oped in collaboration with Larrain’s heirs. It naturally also includes photographs from Valparaiso, probably his most famous book project, for which no one less than Pablo Neruda wrote the accompanying text." (from the publisher of the monograph)