In this book, journalist and author Catalina Mena, the artist's niece, paints an intimate and sensitive portrait of Sergio Larrain (1931-2012), one of Chile's most important photographers, whose life and work are shrouded in an aura of genius and mystery.
From the 1950s onwards, he produced a singular and brilliant body of work which, until his death, remained virtually unknown in Chile. A contradictory figure, he withdrew from public life at the end of the 1970s to devote himself to meditation, yoga and writing, while maintaining a link with the world of photography and an extensive letter-writing activity.
This book, written within the confines of the family circle, explores the chiaroscuro of her biography. The sixth title in the TXT collection, directed by Agnès Sire, Sergio Larrain, la photo perdue sheds new light on the work of the Chilean photographer.