Original Eduardo Masferre Photograph - No Reserve!!!
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This is a highly prized and rare original print by the world renowned photographer, Eduardo Masferre (1909-1995). He was widely regarded as Philippines’ father of photography. Born of Spanish descent, he spent much of his life toiling farms and photographing the Cordillera, the mountainous regions in North Luzon. His black-and-white work was an anthropological record of the vanishing customs and rituals of the tribes in the region. Eduardo Masferre, father of Philippine photography and true cultural hero, was born more than 90 years ago in the Gran Central Cordilleras of Luzon to a Spanish soldier-turned-farmer and his Filipina (Kankanaey) wife. He began his studies in Spain when he was very young but finished school in the Philippines, after which he went to work with American missionaries in Sagada, the town of his early childhood.In 1933, he bought his first camera (a Kodak Graphlex which his family has kept intact to this day), and taught himself the complicated art and science of photography. With surprising instinct and persevering ingenuity, he learned to develop and paint his own prints, making do with the materials available to him. After World War II, he opened a studio in Bontok. To support his family (he was married to Nena Ogues, with whom he had six children - Roland, Jaime, Nena, Pancho, Leonor, Elvira), he turned
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