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Description:

Photograph in square format. In a big long shot, there’s a semi-open intern corridor with wooden beam walls and a dirt floor. In it, three smiling children (a boy and two girls at the back) walk towards the photographer playfully. Around them are pieces of furniture, wooden boxes, a table, overlapped beams on the walls, and a pot on the floor.

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