Pioneer Photography in Bolivia

González) had a studio at Calle Bustillo 60.

González, Miguel. The imprint "Miguel González" appears on a ca. 1890 carte de visite of Bolivian subject. "Fotográfo de Miguel González" appears on a late 1800s albumen print of a rural scene near Tupiza on display in the Museo Municipal in Tupiza.

González y Medina. González y Medina were bookdealers and postcard publishers in La Paz in the early 1900s. Their main store, El Siglo Ilustrado, was at Calle Illimani 17-25 ca. 1918.

Imprints on their postcards indicate that they also had shops in Oruro, Cochabamba, and Potosí.

After a fire in the early 1920s, González and Medina sold out to José San Roman and Enrique Flores (one of their managers). In 1922, they reopened the now greatly expanded enterprise as El Renacimiento with shops in La Paz on the Plaza Murillo 14-18 and at Calle Ingavi 1.

Goodwin & Co. Goodwin was a postcard publisher and possibly a photographer in Iquique, Chile. His imprint "Goodwin & Co." appears on an early 1900s real-photo card of Bolivian Indians.

Goytesola, Jorge. A photographer from Lima, Goytesola accompanied Chicago newspaper publisher William D. Boyce on a 1911 trip through South America. Boyce's Illustrated South America (1912) has five hundred photographs, twenty-six of Bolivia, presumably made by Goytesola.

Gras, Amadeo (1805-1871). Gras, a French-born Uruguayan photographer active in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, passed through the Atacama Desert on an excursion to Peru and Bolivia in 1849. He is said to have sold a daguerreotype camera to Mariano Pablo Rosquellas in Sucre that same year.

Grubb, Kenneth G. (b. 1900). Grubb was an English missionary, writer, and photographer with the Worldwide Evangelical Crusade in South America. See his Amazon and Andes (1930), which contains 139 photographs, including thirty of Bolivia, presumably made by Grubb.

Grumbkow, Georges B. von. A German photographer and civil engineer employed by the Bolivian government, Grumbkow accompanied Charles Wiener during his 1875-1877 scientific expedition to Peru and Bolivia. Some of Grumbkow's photographs served as the basis for the illustrations in Wiener's Pérou et Bolivie, récit de voyage (1880). Grumbkow also accompanied Alphons Stübel on his 1875-1877 travels in Peru and Bolivia, and was with French scientist Theodore Ber on his visit to Tiwanaku in 1876. Grumbkow visited Tiwanaku, Illimani, Cochabamba, Corocoro, La Paz, Sorata, Chuquisaca, Calamarca, Mejillones, Cotaña, and the Beni, which made him one of the most widely traveled photographers of the era. Fourteen of Grumbkow's photographs illustrate Stübel and Max Uhle's Die Ruinenstätte von Tiahuanaco (1892), forty-two are in the Album Gildemeister (which is held by the Museo de Arte de Lima), and many are in the Stübel collections in Germany. Additionally, several Grumbkow photographs are reproduced in Spurensuche, Zwei Erdwissenschaftler im Südamerika des 19.Jahrhunderts (1994), a study of the Stübel-Reiss expedition, edited by Andreas Brockman and Michaela Stüttgen, and in Registros del territorio: Las primeras décadas de la fotografía, 1860-1880 (1997), by Natalia Majluf.

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