Research Catalog

Title

Chicha dreams / Nicolás Torres.

Author

Torres, Nicolás, 1957-

Publication

• New York, NY : Published by Dashwood Books, 2014.
• [Amsterdam] Netherlands : Drukkerij Mart Spruijt

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Villar, Alfredo, 1971-
• Andreotti, Olivier
• Dashwood Books, publisher.

Description

55 unnumbered pages : 52 color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "Chicha is a hybrid of peasant folk music and psychedelic rock that is popular in the impoverished urban neighborhoods of Peru. In the mid-eighties Nicolás Torres began photographing wild Chicha parties, in Cajamarquilla, a poor community of shantytowns on the outskirts of Lima, where thousands of working class kids would gather to party every night of the week"--Publisher's website.
• Contains 52 full-page reproductions of photographs. Preface by Alfredo Vilar on pages 2-3; colophon on last page; no other textual content.

Series Statement

[Dashwood Books series (ltd. edition) ; 3]

Uniform Title

Dashwood Books series (ltd edition) ; 3.

Subjects

• Lima (Peru) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
• Artists' books > United States > 21st century
• Poor > Peru > Lima > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
• Squatter settlements > Peru > Lima > Pictorial works
• Photobooks
• Chicha (Music) > Peru > Lima > Pictorial works
• Torres, Nicolás, 1957-
• Photography, Artistic
• Documentary photography > Peru > Lima
• Dance parties > Peru > Lima > Pictorial works
• Popular music fans > Peru > Lima > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Photobooks.

Note

• Title from cover; edition statement and series statement from publisher's Web site.
• Published in an edition of 500 copies.
• One of the 5 monographs comprising the Dashwood Books series, volume 3, as described on the publisher's Web site, viewed March 17, 2016: http://www.dashwoodbooks.com/pages/events/26/dashwood-books-announces-new-dashwood-books
• The limited edition comprises 20 copies of each monograph in the set, each signed by the respective artist; issued together in a slipcase. See publisher's Web site: http://www.dashwoodbooks.com/pages/books/14700/bruce-gilden-ruth-van-beek-nicolas-torres-peter-piller-brett-lloyd/dashwood-book-series-ltd-edition-vol-3
• "Drawn from the collections of Leticia and Stanislas Poniatowski, Anna Gamazo de Abelló and Alexis Fabry"--Colophon..
• "Printed in the Netherlands with production by Jos Morree, Fine Books, at Drukkerij Mart Spruijt. Design by Olivier Andreotti (Toluca Studio). Spanish-English translation: Gregory Dechant"--Colophon..

Binding (note)

• Issued wire-stitched, in illustrated paper covers. In blue, red and black paper-covered cardboard slipcase, together with the 4 other items comprising v. 3 of the series.

Call Number

MFWY 15-3988

OCLC

945740445

Author

Torres, Nicolás, 1957- photographer.

Title

Chicha dreams / Nicolás Torres.

Publisher

New York, NY : Published by Dashwood Books, 2014.

Manufacturer

[Amsterdam] Netherlands : Drukkerij Mart Spruijt

Edition

[Limited edition]

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Dashwood Books series (ltd. edition) ; 3]

Dashwood Books series (ltd edition) ; 3.

Binding

Issued wire-stitched, in illustrated paper covers. In blue, red and black paper-covered cardboard slipcase, together with the 4 other items comprising v. 3 of the series.

Local Note

Library copy is no. 19/20; signed on colophon page by Nicolás Torres.

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Netherlands Amsterdam.

Added Author

Villar, Alfredo, 1971- writer of preface.

Andreotti, Olivier, book designer.

Dashwood Books, publisher.

Research Call Number

MFWY 15-3988