How did this anthology of the rural bars and shops come about? Argentinian photographer Guillermo Srodek-Hart says, “The stores and shops came as my personal interest in small-town rural Argentina. I wanted to create a documentary project without recurring to a ‘street documentary’ style. I wanted to photograph in an anthropological way, create an archive for posterity, a time capsule. I had always admired the style and the intention behind Atget’s Paris, Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York, the FSA work by Walker Evans, and my mentor from the Museum School in Boston, Jim Dow (who worked for Evans). What I saw here, and perhaps it’s more along the lines of Atget, was that these amazing old shops in rural towns were dying with their owners, and hence the whole town…
