Verger, Pierre
Pierre Verger was born in Paris in 1902 and died in 1996. Photography and travel were his two passions. Armed with a legendary 6 x 6 Rolleiflex, stripped of any other device than its single lens, he began to open those small windows that fix black-and-white images of sober and sensitive realism. The Verger archive consists of over 60,000 negatives: photographs of Buenos Aires in the 1940s, Bolivia, Peru, and his major output, images of Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, with its varied themes recording the many sides of Bahian culture.
