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Julio Cordero Castillo

Other: Julio Cordero

Born: 1879 - Bolivia, Pucarani
Died: 1961
Gender: Male
Active: Bolivia
 
Cordero was a noted photographer active in La Paz from 1898 to 1940. Born in Pucarani, Cordero came to La Paz at the turn of the century to seek his fortune. He learned photography from the Valdez Hermanos. His two sons, Julio P. Cordero Ordoñez (d. 1963) and Gregorio Cordero Miranda (d. 1979?) operated the family studio after his retirement. Cordero‘s first studio was at Calle Ayacucho 74, and he later relocated to Calle Comercio 160. Viscarra‘s 1918 Guía General de Bolivia carries this advertisement: "Importación directa de Europa y Estados Unidos de Norte América, Establecimiento de Fotografía y Cine--Fotografía de Primer Orden de Julio Cordero, La Paz, Grandes premios de Sucre, La Paz y Potosí, Trabajos de arte, ampliaciones, reproducciones, etc., Venta de artículos fotográficos, Vistas fotográficas y tarjetas postales de Bolivia, Se atiende pedidos de cualquier punto de la Republica." Julio Cordero Benavídez, nephew of the progenitor, today guards a family archive of some fifty-thousand images. See Rolando Costa Ardúz‘s La Paz: sus rostros en el tiempo (1973), which depicts the history of La Paz through the Cordero family‘s photographs.
 
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Julio Cordero Castillo, 1910 (ca), [Self portrait of Julio Cordero Castillo with camera and photo miniatures, La Paz], Photograph, The Photo Archive Project, LL/127142
Image: LL/127142
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