Pioneer Photography in Bolivia

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E Encina, Gilberto. In the early 1930s, Encina operated the Taller de Fotografía on Av. Arce in Uyuni.

F Fariñas, Tejada. The imprint "Tejada Fariñas, La Paz, Bolivia" appears on an 1899 cabinet card inscribed by David Perez, La Paz, to Miguel Perez. The imprint on verso reads "Tejada Fariñas, Estudio de Fotografía y Pintura, La Paz, Bolivia." Fawcett, Col. Percy Harrison (1867-1925?). Fawcett was an English surveyor and explorer who demarcated the Bolivian-Brazilian and Bolivian-Peruvian borders in a series of expeditions between 1906 and 1914. He was chief of the Bolivian Commission of the Peru-Bolivia Boundary Commission from 1911 to 1913. (Major H.S. Toppin headed the Peruvian Commission.) Twenty-four of his photographs, dated 1907, 1908, 1911-1913, and 1913-1914, are held by the Royal Geographical Society in London. Among Fawcett's articles are "Explorations in Bolivia," Geographical Journal (London, vol. XXXV, 1910); "Por la zona del Norte de Bolivia," Caras y Caretas (Buenos Aires, vol. XV, no. 722, August 3, 1912); "In the Heart of South America," The Wide World Magazine (London, August 1912, September 1912, October 1912, and November 1912). The last-mentioned, a four-part series, is illustrated with numerous photographs of Bolivia. Fawcett disappeared in 1925 during an expedition in Brazil's Mato Grosso. Some of his Bolivian photographs are included in his memoir, Lost Trails, Lost Cities (1953), edited by his son Brian Fawcett. F.G. Perhaps meaning "Fotografía [G--?]," the imprint "F.G." appears on a series of early 1900 postcards of the Beni, including views of Casa Suarez, the pre-eminent rubber company of the era. Flores, Abdón. Flores was active in La Paz in the early 1930s, with a studio at Calle Colombia 517. Flores, Manuel. Flores had a studio, La Elegante, in Santa Cruz ca. 1918, and another in La Paz at Sagárnaga, ca. 1919. 18


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