Hernán Díaz, 78, pioneer of professional photography in Colombia, died in Bogotá last 30 of November. He was a photojournalist for prestigious international publications like Time, Fortune, Christian Science Monitor and participated in the Venice Biennale of Photography. Díaz – who was born in Ibagué in 1931 – wrote Six Contemporaneous Artists in 1963 and he was the founder of Memorabilia, the first gallery of photography of Colombia. He was awarded with the Federico Hecht National Prize of Photography in 1968 and the First World Contest of Posters in 1980 in Venezuela.
On 2009/12/02, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas







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