Guido Boggiani

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Novara, Italy
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La Victoria, Paraguay
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Guido Boggiani was born in September 1861, in Omegna, province of Novara, a city in northern Italy, died in Chaco, Paraguay, 1902) was an Italian painter, cartoonist, photographer and ethnologist who in 1887 travelled through the interior of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay to report the lives of Indians in the region.

His parents were Giuseppe Boggiani and Clelia Gené. From his father, Giuseppe inherited a passion for the arts, especially painting.

An Italian artist and scientist who dazzled with indigenous communities in Paraguay and the documentary portrayed with skill and talent, is one of the most striking stories in the history of photography.

He died, a victim of another culture, in a ritual of atonement for diseases that were thought he attracted, in 1901.

Childhood and youth

When he was 17 years old, after studying general culture, Boggiani went to the Brera Academy (Milan) in order to study painting. He was taught by Filippo Carcano, becoming a prominent painter, where for his innovative works was considered one of the precursors of "revolutionary art."

In 1881, describes his early works in the Brera Academy at the exhibition Italian General.

In 1883 Boggiani exhibited for the first time in Palazzo delle Belle Arte (Rome), and his painting "della raccolta castagne" was acquired by the National Museum of Modern Art in Rome for about 6,000 pounds, a price considered high at that time.

In 1884 he set out again in Brera and won the prize "Prince Humberto."

In 1887, when 26 years old, Boggiani undertook a journey to south Americas, specifically Argentina in order to expose his canvases, his paintings.Fact|date=August 2008 In Buenos Aires he met several Italians who lived in Paraguay, and through the comments made, especially in the areas of Chaco and indigenous peoples, began its fascination with Paraguay, this so began his own business documentary.

His beginning

In the year 1888 Boggiani came to Asunción for the purpose of trading with cattle and hides, then began his first expedition was the great Chaco, through the efforts of Don Juan De Cominges, reaches Puerto Casado. Here is the first contact with indigenous groups Guana and Zanapaná.

Suddenly painting and businesses were relegated. Boggiani collected the craft and other objects of a world that looked amazing.

He wrote books that opened new paths in the knowledge of the ethnology, ethnography and linguistic and with all this rich material returns to Italy in order to publish them.

In 1893 he returned to Italy carrying a collection of anthropological value on indigenous cultures and published books related to his experience.

In 1896 he returned to Asunción. This time he was equipped with a camera, tripod and all the elements for the development of glass plates, was convinced that the only way to study these peoples living in their little huts. Boggiani bequeathed thirty-eight volumes for the scientific community, but his photographs were those earning interest and admiration of a wider audience at present, through the collection of materials indigenous culture which was subsequently sent to Museum Berlin.

Trajectory

The camera was an assistant scientist for Boggiani extremely useful, but handled with all the sensitivity of his artistic training.

He was obsessed by tattooing or body painting and also for other issues where photographic accuracy is essential.

His photographic work ranges from 1896 to 1901. He took more than 500 photographs that revealed the middle of the jungle.

In 1901, Boggiani returned to Italy in August that year was part Puerto Married to launch its latest issue in the Gran Chaco.

With the thoroughness of the researcher, carrying a notebook with notes on each of the plates and their experiences.

He came into contact with an Argentine amateur photographic society (la Sociedad Fotográfica Argentina de Aficionados de Buenos Aires), which he presented with his negatives.

The explorer had registered with his camera tribes angaites, leagues, sanapanás, caduveos, tobas, payaguás, Wodaabe and Chamacoco. For these peoples photographs represented a real danger, because photography "robbed" the soul or the will of the subject that from that moment was in possession of the photographer.

These tribes, which lived directly, they began to think that the ills and suffering from diseases that were due to the activity of the new "sorcerer" and his strange demonic element, which used to steal his soul.

In October 1902 Boggiani wrote for the last time to his brother Oliveira, where he announced details of the expedition. It was a tragedy that Tronche life of the scientist Guido Boggiani, surprise check how many initiatives carried out during his 40 years in fields as diverse as painting,ethnography, anthropology, literature and photography, the latter erupts with talent to document their scientific research in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.

The fate wanted it to be precisely this photographic activity, which took him to his tragic death.

He was last seen by urban society on October 24 1901, along with his assistant Félix Gavilan, when he left Asunción towards the Gran Chaco.

By failing to take news of him, the Italian community of Asunción organized an expedition led by Spanish explorer José Fernandez Cancio, found the remains of the scientist October 20 1904 his body and his assistant, with skull destroyed, the Indians had split his head to prevent thus continue to exert more "harm" and the camera was found buried, assuming they did the same with many negatives.

Actual remnants of Boggiani are deposited in a tomb in the Italian cemetery of Asunción.

He went back to Italy to publish the same materials to share his knowledge about ethnology, ethnography and linguistics.

His work could be saved thanks to the Czech explorer and botanist Alberto Vojtěch Frič (1882–1944), who came to Paraguay a few years later and was able to recover all his belongings.

He founded in Asunción the Journal of Paraguayan Institute, through which publishes several jobs.

Awards

In Italy he received recognition and prizes: He was awarded the gold medal "Monaco di Bavaria".

The Photographic Society of Argentina Amateurs, in 1904 published a series of portraits sent by Boggiani.

They were also published by the Museum of Anthropology of La Plata. He went to learn the experiences of nations of the Chaco. In 1989 he founded a museum in the town of San Lorenzo, Paraguay that bears his name: The Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography Guido Boggiani.

His style

Boggiani achieved great technical mastery of the camera and processing the photographic plates, many of which were shipped to Argentina Amateur Photographic Society. His work not only tried to be a study on indigenous people but also the environment, place and mode of survival of the natives.

Bibliography

Works by Boggiani

*"Notizie etnografiche sulla tribù dei Ciamacoco, etc." Atti della Società Romana di Antropologia. vol. 2. Rome: Società Romana per l'Antropologia, 1894.
*"I Ciamacoco." Rome: Società Romana per l'Antropologia, 1894.
*With Vittorio Bottègo. "Viaggi di scoperta nel cuore dell'Africa: Il Giuba esplorata." Rome: Loescher, 1895.
*"I Caduvei (Mbayá o Guaicurú). Viaggio d'un artista nell'America Meridionale." Romer: Ermanno Loescher, 1895.
**"Os Caduveo." Translated and annotated. Biblioteca histórica brasileira 14. São Paulo: Livraria Martins Editôra, 1945.
*"Tatuaggio o pittura? Studio intorno ad una curiosa usanza delle popolazioni indigene dell'antico Peru." Rome: Stabilimento Tipografico G. Civelli, 1895. (Extract from Atti del IIo Congresso Geografico Italiano, Roma, 22-27 settembre 1895.)
*"Vocabolario dell'idioma ciamacoco." Extract from Atti della Società Romana per l'Antropologia; 2:1. Rome: 1894.
**"Vocabolario dell'idioma ciamacoco." Rev. Čestmír Loukotka. Buenos Aires, "Coni", 1929.
* "Vocabolario dell'idioma guaná. (È comune anche alle tribù Ciapuchi,́ Sanapana,́ Angaite ́e Lengua o Petegmeḱ, e forse anche alla Pilaga ́o Pitipaga)́. Memoria di Guido Boggiani. Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei. Rome, 1895.
*"Apuntes sueltos de la lengua de los indios caduveos del Chaco paraguayo." Buenos Aires: Impr. y Papeleria La Buenos Aires, 1897.
*"Nei dintorni di Corumbà (Brasile)." Roma, Presso la Società geografica italiana, 1897.
*"La Questione dei confini tra le repubbliche del Paraguay e della Bolivia." Roma, Presso la Società geografica italiana, 1897.
* "Etnografía del Alto Paraguay" 1898.
* "Guaicurú. Su nombre, posición geográfica, reporte étnico y lingüístico en la América Meridional". 1898.
* "En favor de los indios Chamacocos" 1898.
* "Los chamacocos"
* "Vocabulario del idioma chamacoco"
* "Los indios caigua del Alto Paraná (Misiones)"
*"Discusiones sobre filología etnográfica y geografía histórica." Asunción: Guido Boggiani, 1899.
*"Sobre ortografía de nombres geográficos guaraníes." Buenos Aires, Imprenta y litografía "La Buenos Aires," 1899.
*"Compendio de etnografia Paraguaya moderna." Asunción, 1900.

Works on Boggiani

*Comitato Pro-Boggiani (Asunción). "Alla ricerca di Guido Boggiani. Spedizione Cancio nel Ciaco Boreale, Alto Paraguay. Relazione e documenti." Milano: Bontempelli, 1903.
*"Boggiani y el Chaco: una aventura del siglo XIX: fotografías de la colección Frič." Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco, 2002.
*Bonati, Isabella. "Guido Boggiani: Orme nell'ignoto." Turin: Il Tucano, 2006. ISBN 8888473106. In Italian.
*Diaz-Perez, Viriato, and Raúl Amarai. "Coronario di Guido Boggiani." Palma de Mallorca: Luis Ropoli, 1977. ISBN 8485048350.
*Frič, Pavel, and Yvonna Fričová, eds. "Guido Boggiani: Fotograf / Fotografo / Fotógrafo / Photographer." Prague: Titanic, 1997. ISBN 80-85909-25-1. A large-format book with prints and also text in Czech, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
*Frič, Pavel, and Yvonna Fričová, eds. "Guido Boggiani Fotografo." Lisbon: Museo Nacional de Etnologia, 2001. ISBN 9727760899. In Portuguese.
*Lehmann-Nitsche, Robert, ed. "La Colección Boggiani de Tipos Indigenas de Sudamérica Central / Die Sammlung Boggiani von Indianentypen ause dem zentralen Südamerika." Buenos Aires: R. Rosauer, 1904. A series of 100 postcards on those originating Paraguayans, which included a supplement of 12 naked special reserved for scientists.
*Leigheb, Maurizio. "Lo sguardo del viaggiatore: vita e opere di Guido Boggiani." Novara: Interlinea, 1997. ISBN 8882121356.
*Leigheb, Maurizio, ed. "Guido Boggiani: Pittore, esplatore, etnografo." Novara, 1986. Torino: Regione Piemonte, 1986.
*Leigheb, Maurizio, and Lino Cerutti, eds. "Guido Boggiani – la vita i viaggio le opere: atti del Convegno internazionale, Novara, 8-9 marzo 1985" Novara: Banca Popolare di Novara, 1992.
*Pettazzoni, Raffaele. "In Memoria di Guido Boggiani." Rome: Centro italiano di studi americani, 1941.
*Scotti, Pietro. "I contributi americanistici di Guido Boggiani." Genova, Libreria degli studi, 1955.
*Scotti, Pietro. "La seconda spedizione di Guido Boggiani fra i Caduvèi (1897)." Genova: Libreria degli studi, 1963.
*Viviani, Alberto. "Guido Boggiani: alla scoperta del Gran Chaco." Turin: Paravia, 1951.
*Bertelli, Antonio de Padua. "Os indios cavaleiros Guaycurus: fatos e acontecidos entre 1526 - 1986 no Pantanal do Mato Grosso". São Paulo: Uyara, 1987.

External links

* Abel, Alexander. " [http://www.clarin.com/suplementos/zona/2002/11/17/z-00601.htm El arte de robar el alma a los indios] ". "Clarín," 17 November 2002. es icon
* Giordano, Mariana. " [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/imprimir/diario/suplementos/radar/9-472-2002-11-11.html El hombre de la cámara] ". "Página 12," 10 November 2002. es icon
*Machado, Alvaro. " [http://web.archive.org/web/20021212053249/http://opera-prima.com/guidoenglish.html Hell and Heaven in Chaco: Guido Boggiani's History] ". Article with sample images. Via Wayback. en icon
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20021221135538/opera-prima.com/galeriaguido.html Supplementary images] . Via Wayback.
* Pesis, Hernán. " [http://www.leedor.com/notas/1406---guido_boggiani.html El trágico final del fotógrafo] ". "Leedor," 13 October 2005. es icon