Limping into retirement
by James Brunker
Title
Limping into retirement
Artist
James Brunker
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
An abandoned vintage International Harvester pickup truck slowly rusts away on the edge of the small salt mining village of Colchani in south west Bolivia. I think this was an S-Series truck which were made in the mid 1950s (this one possibly in the company's Brazilian subsidiary factory). The International Harvester Company was formed in 1902 when the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company (along with other smaller firms) were merged. International Harvester renamed itself Navistar International Corporation in 1986 after selling most of its agricultural division to Tenneco.
Colchani lies on the eastern shore of the huge Salar de Uyuni salt flat and its inhabitants have long collected and processed salt for a living. A wide variety of vintage trucks were and are still used to transport the salt to the village; many of them lie abandoned and rusting in and around the village after they can no longer be repaired and patched up.
Photograph © James Brunker. Reproduction, publication, transmission or use in any form without written permission prohibited.
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July 2nd, 2021
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