Daniel Rodriguez, "Colombia, Un Rostro Del Pasado"

02/01/2021

We are rescanning everything from scratch. Just got our new work horse. Long hours ahead but great things are coming for the archive. Stay tuned.

02/15/2016

[curator's note: In Daniel's photograph, taken in the early 40's, you can see the Santuario De Monserrate behind the church on the mountain-top]

Iglesia de las Nieves, Location: Carrera 7 and Calle 20
Author: Juan Bautista Arnaud - Arturo Jaramillo Co**ha / Built: 1922 - 1937

This is the fourth church built on this site. The first was a thatched chapel erected around 1568 and consecrated in 1585 by Archbishop Fray Luis Zapata Cardenas, thus establishing the parish of Our Lady of the Snows. In 1596 a fire destroyed it and the image of the virgin Mary, to whom the temple was consecrated. The second church was built in 1597 and then enlarged in mid-seventeenth century. Paintings and photographs that show its colonial and austere [structure] are rare. However, that church was badly damaged by the earthquake of 1917, and it was demolished in 1922. In its place Juan Bautista Arnaud and Arturo Jaramillo designed and constructed the current church which is inspired by the Romanesque-Byzantine styles consistent with the prevailing architectural eclecticism in Bogota at the time.

Source: Historical Atlas of Bogotá 1538-1911 / Las Nieves across the city.

Iglesia de las Nieves, Ubicación: carrera 7 con calle 20
Autor: Juan Bautista Arnaud - Arturo Jaramillo Co**ha / Construcción: 1922 - 1937

Esta es la cuarta iglesia que se levanta en este lugar. La primera fue una ermita pajiza levantada hacia 1568 y bendecida en 1585 por el arzobispo fray Luis Zapata de Cárdenas, estableciendo así la parroquia de la Virgen de Nuestra señora de las Nieves, pero en 1596 un incendio acabó con ella y con la imagen de la virgen a la que se había consagrado el templo. La segunda iglesia se levantó en 1597 y luego otra mucho más amplia a mediados del siglo XVII, de esta por fortuna, se encuentran pinturas y fotografías que nos muestran su aspecto colonial y austero. Sin embargo, esta iglesia resultó seriamente averiada por el terremoto de 1917 por lo cual se decidió demolerla en 1922. En su reemplazo Juan Bautista Arnaud y Arturo Jaramillo levantaron la actual iglesia de inspiración románico-bizantina consecuente con el eclecticismo imperante en la arquitectura bogotana de la época.

Fuente: Atlas Histórico de Bogotá 1538-1911 / Las Nieves la ciudad al otro lado.

http://www.culturarecreacionydeporte.gov.co/sitios-de-interes-patrimonial-del-corredor-cultural-de-la-septima

02/02/2016

"nevada del ruiz - el cono" ca 1950

Today's post is a dramatic photograph of the
volcanic cone of Nevada del Ruiz taken somewhere in
the 1950s from an adjacent slope.

This is an opportunity to correct an omission in
the Berlin Exhibit, where we presented certified
copies of the PRINTS Daniel had donated to his son
Carlos. This digital file was scanned from a
negative in the same photo-shoot, one that Daniel
gave away, lost, or didn't print.

That makes this photograph very rare indeed.

01/16/2016

"Fachadas"
This is a video that was created in a joint venture between The Daniel Rodriguez Archive and the Chopin Project (http://www.chopinproject.com/2011/02/26/fachadas-daniel-rodriguez-sequence/ -1736) on September 22, 2011. The photograph used was taken by Daniel in front of the Capilla del Sagrario de la Catedral de Bogotá, sometime in the early 40s.

Daniel Rodriguez was a photojournalist for the Colombian daily newspaper El Espectador from 1936-66. His work, nearly all in black and white, is known for it...

01/13/2016

Germany is the second largest fan group of the Daniel Rodriguez page after the USA.
ich danke Ihnen für Ihre Unterstützung meiner Freunde.

01/06/2016

Welcome to the new Daniel Rodriguez Archive page. Here we will present the Archive and all of it's components. To learn more about Daniel, you can see his biography in the "about" tab along with other helpful information.

Please feel free to browse, comment, and share this page. We will be adding more information weekly, including folders of photographs from Colombia SA, from the decades of the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
Carlos Rodriguez, Owner
Jim De Mauro, Curator