Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The following footage comes from films in the Alfredo Boulton archive at the Getty Research Institute. Boulton (1908–1995) was an important photographer and art historian of mid-century Venezuela. The films document some of Boulton's travels, projects, and relationships with major artists, capturing a culturally vibrant moment in the 1940s and 1950s when modernism was thriving in South America.
On a trip to France and Spain in 1950, Boulton filmed Otero at his studio in Paris. In the film, Boulton also recorded severalother Venezuelan artists living in Paris, including Mateo Manaure, Pascual Navarro, and Narciso Debourg, all members of Los Disidentes together with Otero. At the end of the movie, Otero shows his latest abstract paintings to the camera.
Learn more: getty.edu/AlfredoBoulton
The following footage comes from films in the Alfredo Boulton archive at the Getty Research Institute. Boulton (1908–1995) was an important photographer and art historian of mid-century Venezuela. The films document some of Boulton's travels, projects, and relationships with major artists, capturing a culturally vibrant moment in the 1940s and 1950s when modernism was thriving in South America.
On a trip to France and Spain in 1950, Boulton filmed Otero at his studio in Paris. In the film, Boulton also recorded severalother Venezuelan artists living in Paris, including Mateo Manaure, Pascual Navarro, and Narciso Debourg, all members of Los Disidentes together with Otero. At the end of the movie, Otero shows his latest abstract paintings to the camera.
Learn more: getty.edu/AlfredoBoulton
