Stumbling upon Greatness: Exploring Sergio Larrain
Back in 1977, performing in my initial journalism career, I picked up a few of LPs that caught my eye on the “slush pile” of publicists’ mailings, took them household, and read with amazement the intoxicating songs of the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who died in 1974. Obsessed, I traveled to England and wrote the initially entire-duration magazine write-up on him in this nation, thrilled that I could spread the fantastic information.
I experienced the very same jolt of discovery extra not too long ago when I stumbled on the pictures of Sergio Larrain. Sadly, like Drake he was currently long gone by the time I uncovered him. The event was the publication in 2013, a year following Larrain’s demise, of a detailed commemorative reserve of his pictures by the Aperture Foundation. Aperture followed up that deeply extraordinary quantity with a e-book of photos taken by Larrain in the Chilean