Fusco, Penélides Aristóbulo

Pinélides Aristóbulo Fusco (Buenos Aires, 1913–1991) completed his primary and secondary education at the Normal de Profesores Mariano Acosta. He was a classmate of Julio Cortázar, and they graduated together with the title of Professor in Letters. His teaching career began at the age of 17 at the Estanislao Zeballos School in La Boca. Fusco was also a piano teacher and studied visual arts at the Asociación Estímulo Bellas Artes. He was an avid reader of history, philosophy, fiction, and poetry.

In 1948, he joined the team at the Subsecretaría de Informaciones, created by Apold, where he worked until the coup d'état and the ousting of President Domingo Perón in 1955. During those years, he developed a close relationship with the presidential couple, capturing Perón and Evita in everyday moments that were very different from the official image projected from Casa Rosada. During the Liberating Revolution, Fusco had to hide his archive to prevent it from being destroyed by the military, due to the proscription of Peronism and the ban on any images related to the former president. The archive was recovered by his family nearly forty years later.

He was a founding member of the Carpeta de los Díez, along with Anatole Saderman, Annemarie Heinrich, George Friedman, and Hans Mann, among others. He also participated in the first exhibition of Grupo Forum, of which he was a member until he retired from photography. He retired by selling imported cars at a dealership in the Caballito neighborhood.