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Description:

Photograph in square format. In a long shot, Tomás Lago with a group of students: six women and three men, on a land path. Among the students, Roberto Díaz Castillo, Tomás Lago’s assistant, and Ida González, can be identified. They are looking and greeting at the camera, smiling with open arms. At the edge of the path is dense vegetation, such as ligustrine and trees from the area.

Context:

The image is part of a Folk Art field trip to Chillán carried out by Tomás Lago in 1956. Specifically to Quinchamalí, to apply a survey to the potters in the area because of the lack of a bibliography and unfinished research about folk ceramics. For this reason, Tomás Lago carried out a study published in the Art magazine of the Bellas Artes school of the Universidad de Chile, titled Cerámicas de Quinchamalí (Quinchamalí Ceramics) in 1958.

Subjects:
Chile, Outreach, Quinchamalí, Research and Teaching, Tomás Lago