BGuthrie Photos: OAS General Secretariat Building -- Terrace Level Gallery -- Exhibit: "Lost Worlds"

OAS General Secretariat Building -- Terrace Level Gallery -- Exhibit: "Lost Worlds":

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Description of Pictures: LOST WORLDS F Street Gallery Opening
December 5, 2011 – February 24, 2012

This exhibition of photographs presents a powerful visual narrative of the cultures, conflicts and conquests that forged the New World. Covering significant ruins in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America, Lost Worlds offers a unique pictorial survey of the geographical, architectural and historical diversity that defines the Americas.
Seeking to broaden the vision that inspired him to create American Ruins (traveling exhibition and publication by Merrell 2007), the first photographic survey of historic ruins within the United States, photographer and writer Arthur Drooker continues his journey making images of ruins that shed light on the collective identity of the Americas.
After conducting extensive research, Drooker identified, traveled to, and photographed thirty-three ruins in fifteen countries over a three-year period. They range from iconic UNESCO World Heritage Sites to places that are less well known but no less worthy. They include a king’s palace in Haiti, Inca fortresses in Peru, Maya pyramids in Mexico, and a colonial city in Panama sacked by legendary pirates.
Drooker photographed each site with a specially adapted digital infrared camera. Infrared photography records an invisible band of light that envelops ruins in an otherworldly glow.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT: ARTHUR DROOKER
Photographing ruins merges my passions for history and photography. I'm drawn to these sites to commune with those who came before us, preserve what they left behind, and restore what they've built to our collective memory. In this act of creation, I confront my own mortality and become most alive.
I have three criteria for selecting these sites: They have to be preserved as historic ruins; they must make a distinctive architectural and geographic contribution to the series; and they should be suitable subjects for infrared photography, a medium that best evokes their inherent m ...More...

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1. OASLOS_120120_090.JPG: Western Sector Machu Picchu Built 1400s More than a ruin, Machu Picchu is a magical world unto itself. Though only 50 miles (80 km) from Cusco, it sits secluded in the saddle between two verdant mountains, Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu, about 8,0000 feet (3,600m) above sea level. With panoramic views of surrounding peaks, lush vegetation clinging to plunging cliffs, and enveloping mists rising from the Urubamba River below, Machu Picchu, wrote Che Guevara, "drives any dreamer to ecstasy."
2. OASLOS_120120_136.JPG: Reef Bay Sugar Mill St. John, US Virgin Islands Built 1800s The sugar industry on St. John began to collapse in 1848 with the abolition of slavery in the Danish West Indies. Plantations that continued their sugar operations used steam power instead of slave labor. However, depleted soil and foreign competition lowered sugar prices, leading to further decline. After a severe hurricane in 1916, Reef Bay Mill, the last in operation. closed, and with it, the sugar era on St. John came to an end.
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