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Cuzco

1973

Edward Grazda

(American, b. 1947)
Culture
America
Medium
inkjet print
Measurements
Image: 10.2 x 15.2 cm (4 x 6 in.)
Credit Line
Transfer from Ingalls Library 2023.151
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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By the 1960s, almost all trains in the United States were pulled by diesel locomotives.

Description

Edward Grazda “has been drawn to worlds apart, places that have not wholly caught up with the times and where cultural traditions are preserved,” wrote his wife, photo editor Valerie Sonnenthal. During his first decade as a photographer, Grazda sought such places in the United States but in 1973–74, he undertook his first international project—a trip to Peru, where he photographed this man walking atop a train pulled by a steam locomotive.
A black-and-white, horizontally oriented photograph is dominated by the dark, curved plane of a train roof slicing diagonally toward the horizon. A small silhouette stands atop the curve near a plume of dark smoke. To the left, a steep slope falls away toward a valley town and hazy mountains. A stone building anchors the upper right corner, while a lumpy sack sits perched on the train's vast, textured surface.

Cuzco

1973

Edward Grazda

(American, b. 1947)
America

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