Work & Activities

As a documentary photographer he made four films: ‘Mariñeiros’, ‘Oleiros’, ‘Canteiros’ and ‘Feirantes’. He carried out a very important cinematographic activity in Argentina. In 1938, he was the photography director in the film ‘Los Caranchos de la Florida’ and in 1939 he directed La Mujer y el Jockey. During the 40’s, he collaborated with important newspapers and magazines such as ‘El Día’ and ‘La Prensa’ and published his book Nieve en los Andes. In 1954, he travelled to Japan, where he carried out an important work on photographic documentation about Japanese life and customs that he exhibited in 1957 at Van Riel Gallery in Buenos Aires. Besides, he collaborated in the North American magazines ‘Life’ and ‘U.S. Camera’. He made a very important documentary work about bullfighting, which was later published in Great Britain with the title The Life & Death of the Fighting Bull.