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Villa de Manzano (from Mazano Series)
Villa de Manzano (from Mazano Series)
Villa de Manzano (from Mazano Series)

Villa de Manzano (from Mazano Series)

Artist (American, born 1937)
Date1968
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (26 × 26.7 cm)
Support: 20 × 15 in. (50.8 × 38.1 cm)
Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Cavalliere G. Ketchum, 1968
Object number2253.23PH
DescriptionHispanic teenager/young woman sitting in front of cloth bulletin board on which school photos and family snapshots are arranged. Stuffed dog at right, framed picture of Elvis Presley at top left.
Text Entries
In 1966, Cavalliere Ketchum found his way to the village of Manzano on the southeastern slopes of the Manzano Mountains in Torrance County and began photographing this community. Manzano (“apple tree” in Spanish) was founded in 1610 and named for its apple orchards. It had about 150 residents when Ketchum began visiting. The drive there from Albuquerque was long so artist eventually rented a house in the village so that when he visited on weekends he could easily stay overnight. He was interested in the Castilian (northern Spanish) roots of the village and its stark contrasts between the old way of life and the new. Ketchum’s work in Manzano from became his M.F.A. project at the University of New Mexico. In 1992, Ketchum’s photographs and stories of Manzano were published with the music and poems of his friend James Talley as “the Road to Torreon.” The artist returned to Manzano to photograph again in the summer of 1994. See Van Deren Coke, “Three Generations of Hispanic Photographers Working in New Mexico, “The Harwood Foundation Museum of the University of New Mexico, Taos, 1993.
The label on the verso of the mount indicates that Ketchum submitted this photograph for consideration for museum’s juried “1968 Southwestern Fiesta-Biennial.” A published checklist of artists included in the exhibition does not include Ketchum.
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