Fotografías de Jorge Landivar Ugarte de la provincia de Imbabura y de un paseo realizado a Otavalo de María Angélica Idrobo, Zoila Ugarte y sus alumnas en el año de 1936

Abstract

This publication contains a selection of thirty-five photographs by Jorge Landivar Ugarte, an Ecuadorian photographer who produced research and knowledge in the history, geography and border situation of Ecuador in the mid-twentieth century. These images, are the visual testimony of the trip to the province of Imbabura, in 1936, by two teachers - Maria Angelica Idrobo and Zoila Ugarte - with a group of boarding school students of the Fernandez Madrid Institute from Quito, and gather the experience of the trip both portraying these women as well as recording scenarios, people, and activities from that time. In the photographs you can see reproductions of emblematic places of the city of Otavalo such as the Central Park, symbolic place of local power, the great animal market, the scene of intense commercial exchanges, the Church of El Jordan with its priests and parishioners. At the same time, the photographs show the teachers and students from the Quito institution in several locations on the periphery of the city where the family home of one of the renowned teachers, Maria Angelica Idrobo, seems to have been located.