Finding Aid for the Horacio Ochoa photographs of Peruvian sites and monuments,
1920-1959
Beth Ann Guynn
Descriptive Summary
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.
Biographical/Historical Note
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.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
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
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 2006.
Processing History
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.
Arrangement
Arranged in a single series:
Series I. Horacio Ochoa photographs of Peruvian sites and monuments, 1920-1959.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Sacred space -- Peru
Terracing -- Peru
Inca architecture -- Peru
Inca sculpture -- Peru
Incas -- Peru -- Antiquities
Incas -- Peru -- Religion
Huacas -- Peru
Subjects - Places
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
Genres and Forms of Material
Gelatin silver prints -- Peru -- 20th century
Panoramas -- Peru -- 20th century
Photographs, Original
Contributors
Ruzo, Daniel, 1900-
Ochoa, Horacio
Series I.
Horacio Ochoa photographs of Peruvian sites and monuments,
Photographed between 1920 and 1939; printed
between 1940 and 1959
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by region and then by site.
box 1, folder 1
2006.R.4-1
Andenería incaica de Atabamba (Apurímac)
Scope and Content Note
"Fot.: Horacio Ochoa G., Cuzco, Peru"--blind stamp lower right corner.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-2
[View of Rumihasi Showing Its Two Large Carved Rocks/Altars]
Scope and Content Note
Image is printed in reverse.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-3
Monolito Sayhuite
Scope and Content Note
Rumihuasi, view of the two large carved rocks/altars.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-4
Monolito Sayhuite
Scope and Content Note
"Ochoa"--ink annotation on verso. Central carved rock/altar, Rumihuasi.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-5
Monolito Sayhuite
Scope and Content Note
"Ochoa"--ink annotation on verso. Fish altar, lateral view.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-6
Monolito Sayhuite
Scope and Content Note
"Fot.: Horacio Ochoa G. / Cuzco, Peru"--blind stamp lower right corner. Fish
altar, frontal view showing open mouth.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-7
Saihuiti
Scope and Content Note
Title written in ink. "Dup"--pencil annotation on verso. Large altar with stone
block in foreground.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-8
Monolito Sayhuite
Scope and Content Note
"Ochoa"--ink annotation on verso. Rumihuasi, stone house/rock with cut out door
and niche.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-9
Monolito Sayhuite
Scope and Content Note
"Ochoa"--ink annotation on verso. Stone seat.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-10
[Piedra de Sayhuite from the East]
Scope and Content Note
"P. 124, f45"--annotation on verso.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-11
Monolito Sayhuite vista oriental
Scope and Content Note
"Ochoa"--ink annotation on verso. Piedra de Sayhuite from the east.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-12
Detalle Monolito Sayhuite
Scope and Content Note
"Fot.: Horacio Ochoa G. / Cuzco, Peru"--blind stamp lwoer right corner.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-13
Detalle Monolito Sayhuite
Scope and Content Note
This annotation also repeated in ink. "Fot.: Horacio Ochoa G. / Cuzco,
Peru"--blind stamp lower right corner. Detail of a puma on the Piedra de
Sayhuite.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-14
Monolito Sayhuite vista occidental
Scope and Content Note
"Fot.: Horacio Ochoa G. / Cuzco, Peru"--blind stamp lower right corner.
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-15
Detalle Monolito Sayhuite
box 1, folder 2
2006.R.4-16
Un monolito de "Sayhuiti," que estaba en reciente palimento i tallodo
[?]
Scope and Content Note
Title written in blue ink. "Fotografado por Ochoa"--black ink annotation on
verso. "Fot.: Horacio Ochoa G. / Cuzco, Peru"--blind stamp lower right corner.
box 1, folder 3
2006.R.4-17
Un roquedal llamado "Uma Muttu," en el que se ve cabeza de un condor
mochado, i está tambien cerca a Anghas Marca
Scope and Content Note
Title written in blue ink. "Cabeza Moch' Ochoa"--black ink annotation on
verso.
box 1, folder 3
2006.R.4-18
Un cabeza en perfil, junto a las ruinas de Anghas Marca
box 1, folder 4
2006.R.4-19
Templo del Sol Santo Domingo
Scope and Content Note
"Ochoa"--ink annotation on verso. View of arched and latticed windows of Santo
Domingo sitting atop the foundations of Coricancha, Cuzco.
box 1, folder 5
2006.R.4-20
Detalle Machu Picchu templo principal
Scope and Content Note
Ochoa.
box 1, folder 5
2006.R.4-21
Machupicchu sótano
Scope and Content Note
Detail of stairway leading to the Inca royal tomb beneath the Torreon.
Wiñay Wayna (Huynay Huayna)
box 1, folder 5
2006.R.4-22
Pátio Huiñay Huaina
Scope and Content Note
"Ochoa:"--ink annotation on verso.
box 1, folder 5
2006.R.4-23
Portada Huiñay Huaina
Scope and Content Note
"Ochoa"--ink annotation on verso.
box 1, folder 5
2006.R.4-24
Portada vivienda indigena
Scope and Content Note
"Ochoa"--ink annotation on verso. Stone doorway with lion carved on lintel and wooden
doors; location unidentified.
box 2, folder 1
2006.R.4-25
Amfiteatro Moray en Chincheros
Scope and Content Note
Panoramic view of Groups A, B, and D. The panorama is formed by three joined
photographs.
box 2, folder 1
2006.R.4-26
Amfiteatro Moray en Chincheros
Scope and Content Note
Panoramic view of Groups A, B, and D. The panorama is formed by three joined
photographs.
box 2, folder 2
2006.R.4-27
Amfiteatro Moray (Chincheros)
Scope and Content Note
"Fot.: Horacio Ochoa G. / Cuzco, Peru"--blind stamp lower and upper right corners.
Panoramic view of Group A. The panorama is formed by two joined photographs.
box 2, folder 1
2006.R.4-28
Amfiteatro Moray en Chincheros
Scope and Content Note
"Fot.: Horacio Ochoa G. / Cuzco, Peru"--blind stamp lower and upper right corners.
Panoramic view of the bottom and terraces of Group [?]. The panorama is formed by
two joined photographs.
box 2, folder 2
2006.R.4-29
Ruinas de Anghas Marka, encima de la población de Calca
Scope and Content Note
Annotation continues: ...por cuyas ceranías pasa el camino carretero en actual
construcción. Ruinas de estilo 'Chíylla.' "Fot.: Horacio Ochoa G. / Cuzco,
Peru"--blind stamp lower left corner. Panoramic view; formed by five joined
photographs and a small strip of a sixth photograph.
