Díaz, Hernán

In 1954, he began his studies at The Photographers School in Westport, Connecticut. During the 1960s, his illustrated books and photographs circulated in prestigious magazines in Latin America and the United States: he worked for Life and Time, as well as for The Christian Science Monitor newspaper. In Colombia, his work was disseminated through magazines such as Cromos (which had a weekly section titled Encounters with Hernán Díaz), Credencial, and Semana. His work as a photographer received a significant boost from the Colombian-Argentine art critic Marta Traba, who in the late 1950s championed him along with other modern artists such as Fernando Botero, Alejandro Obregón, Enrique Grau, Guillermo Wiedemann, Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, and Édgar Negret. In 1963, he published, in collaboration with Marta Traba, a book titled Six Contemporary Colombian Artists. Later, he published Cartagena Morena (1972); Diary of Devastation (1979); The Blue Borders of Colombia (1982); Illustrious Guest Houses of Colombia (1985); Cartagena Forever (1992); and Portraits (1993).