National Postcards...
5:02 p.m.08/12/23 - Harry Grant Olds (Sandusky, 1868 - Buenos Aires, 1943) was a great portrait maker who developed his activity in the Buenos Aires of the beginning of the 20th century. The interesting thing about this is that he immortalized, through his camera, the daily life of every individual he met on the street. Street workers were particularly attractive to his lens. Thanks to these black and white images we have a record of the activity they carried out, the setting in which they moved and even the clothing they wore. There is a particular photo that shows the inhabitants of what used to be called “conventillo”, a house made up of several rooms with an interior patio and one shared bathroom. Thanks to the CIFHA Foundation, who recovered all these postcards and achieved a spectacular gigantography of the “Conventillo”, we are now able to see in great detail even the smallest expression of those in the picture: almost as if we had crossed some portal and our presence was witness to the moment of the shot.
Harry Grant Olds
Fundación Cifha
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