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Title: Horacio Ochoa photographs of Peruvian sites and monuments,
Date (inclusive): 1920-1959
Number: 2006.R.4
Creator/Collector:
Ochoa, Horacio
Physical Description:
29 photographic prints
(2 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The collection contains photographs by
Horacio Ochoa of monumental natural and built environments in Peru. The photographs were
used by Daniel Ruzo in his research on Peruvian protohistory. Many of the images depict the
sacred places or large sacred objects known as huacas. Included are the sites of Antabamba,
Sayhuite (Saywite), Machu Picchu, Anghas Marka, Huiñay Huayna(Wiñay Wayna), and
Moray.
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Language: Collection material is in Spanish; Castilian.
The Peruvian photographer Horacio Ochoa (1905-1978) was born in San Sebastián, Cusco. He
studied with José Gabriel González and became one of the most prominent practitioners of the
Cusco School. Active from 1928 to 1964, Ochoa was known for his architectural and landscape
views of ancient cities and colonial monuments. In addition to running his own photography
studio he also worked for the Peruvian Policía Nacional documenting political and union
leaders.
Daniel Ruzo (1900-1991) was a Peruvian lawyer, poet and writer, and archaeologist known for
his studies of the occult sciences, especially Nostradamus, and protohistory. He theorized
that an ancient culture, destroyed by a catalclysmic event, perhaps the Biblical Noachian
flood, had once existed in Central and South America. Ruzo suggested that the Masma, as he
called this culture and its people, were the American survivors of a once-worldwide
primordial culture. Ruzo was a thirty-third degree Mason and member of the Subud spiritual
movement. Born in Lima, Peru, later in life Ruzo moved to Rio de Janiero before eventually
settling in Cuernavca, Mexico.
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Horacio Ochoa photographs of Peruvian sites and monuments, 1920-1959, Getty Research
Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2006.R.4.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2006r4
Acquired in 2006.
Processed by Beth Ann Guynn in 2007. Finding aid written by Guynn in 2014 and encoded by
Linda Kleiger.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains photographs of monumental natural and built environments used by
Daniel Ruzo in his research on Peruvian protohistory. Many of the images depict the sacred
places or large sacred objects known as huacas. Included are the sites of Antabamba (1),
Sayhuite (Saywite) (15), Machu Picchu (2), Anghas Marka (3), Huiñay Huayna(Wiñay Wayna) (2),
and Moray (4).
The photographs from the sanctuary of Sayhuite include the stone altars and shrines of
Rumihuasi, hewn from large boulders, as well as views and details of the Piedra de Sayhuite.
A massive, irregularly shaped boulder with intricate relief carvings on its upper surface,
the stone contains an idealized landscape of canals, terraces, paths, buildings, humans, and
wide variety of animals, representing the various ecological zones that were part of the
Inca Empire. Included are details of canals, terraces, and pumas.
Four panoramic photographs depict the agricultural terraces of Moray in the Sacred Valley,
Cuzco. A fifth image of terracing is of Antabamba. There is also a panoramic view of the
ruins at Anghas Marka.
Also included are two photographs that show post-conquest alterations to Inca monuments:
the first, a view of the Coricancha temple in Cuzco with the Convent of Santo Domingo built
atop it, and the second, a rock-hewn doorway into which carved wooden doors have been
inserted.
The photographs were printed in the 1940s or 1950s from negatives made in the 1920s and
1930s.
Annotations are transcribed as they appear on the versos of the photographs, and are in
pencil, unless otherwise noted. Titles of individual images are taken from these
annotations, unless otherwise noted.
Arranged in a single series:
Series I. Horacio Ochoa photographs of Peruvian sites and monuments, 1920-1959.
Sacred space -- Peru
Terracing -- Peru
Inca architecture -- Peru
Inca sculpture -- Peru
Incas -- Peru -- Antiquities
Incas -- Peru -- Religion
Huacas -- Peru
Coricancha Temple Site (Cuzco, Peru)
Curahuasi (Peru) -- Antiquities
Cuzco (Peru) -- Antiquities
Machu Picchu Site (Peru) -- Antiquities
Peru -- Description and travel
Urubamba River Vallery (Peru) -- Description and travel
Gelatin silver prints -- Peru -- 20th century
Panoramas -- Peru -- 20th century
Photographs, Original
Ruzo, Daniel, 1900-
Ochoa, Horacio