Villa de Manzano
Artist
Cavalliere G. Ketchum
(American, b. 1937)
Date1968
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (26 × 26 cm)
Support: 20 × 15 in. (50.8 × 38.1 cm)
Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 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 number2252.23PH
DescriptionInterior scene of interior of living room. Television sits on table at left of image; head-and-shoulder view of woman sitting in chair at bottom right corner looking at viewer. Table between woman and TV with animal head and photos on top. Pictures and objects hang on wall.eMuseum Notes
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 tartist eventuallylly rented a house in the
village so that when he visited on weekends he could easily stay overnight. He
was interested in the Castillian (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.
On View
Not on viewTerms
Helen Greene Blumenschein
1950-1989 (printed October, November 1994)
