Alfredo Boulton, "El Llano" (ca. 1940s)

The following footage comes from films in the Alfredo Boulton archive at the Getty Research Institute. Boulton (1908-1995) was an important photographer and art historian of mid-century Venezuela. The films document some of Boulton's travels, projects, and relationships with major artists, capturing a culturally vibrant moment in the 1940s and 1950s when modernism was thriving in South America.
Boulton made this film on one of his trips to Los Llanos (the Plains), an important agricultural and cattle-raising area in the central region of Venezuela. The film shows an expedition of people, including Yolanda, Boulton’s wife, traveling on a river and camping in a tent. The recording also presents images of local people and landscapes.
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