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Additional authors

1. Bracho, Coral,
2. Cortina Icaza, María,
3. Emilia Felker, Ana,
4. Huerta, David, 1949-
5. Petrich, Blanche,
6. Turok, Antonio, 1955-
7. Vázquez Martín, Eduardo,
8. Villoro, Juan, 1956-

Description

1. 167 pages, 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

1. Antonio Turok was born in 1955 in Mexico City. At seventeen he arrived in Chiapas, where he lived twenty-five years and began his photographic career. He was a correspondent in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s. He was the first photographer to account for the Zapatista uprising, and later, in Oaxaca, he photographed the APPO movement. He was in New York on September 11, 2001 and has taken pictures of Mexicans in the United States and the industrial crisis in the Midwest. He recently documented protest demonstrations in the presidential takeover of Donald Trump. He has collaborated in different publications such as Aperture, Camera Work, Chronicle, La Jornada, DoubleTake, Paris Match, Le Monde, Stern, The Independent and Proceso. His work is included in several collective books, as well as in collections of various museums and private collections. He has published the books Images of Nicaragua (1988) and Chiapas: The End of Silence / The End of Silence (Era / Aperture, 1998). He obtained the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Award in 1994, and has received scholarships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Mexico / United States Culture Trust. In 2018 he obtained the Photographic Merit Medal awarded by the National Institute of Anthropology and History's Photo Library. He is considered one of the most important documentary photographers of our time.

Subject

1. Social problems
2. Demonstrations
3. Political psychology
4. Documentary photography
5. Mexico > Chiapas
6. Problemas sociales > Guatemala > Libros da láminas
7. Photobooks
8. Turok, Antonio, 1955-
9. Political psychology > Pictorial works
10. Documentary photographs
11. Problemas sociales > El Salvador > Libros da láminas
12. United States
13. Social problems > El Salvador > Pictorial works
14. Pictorial works
15. El Salvador
16. Problemas sociales > Nicaragua > Libros da láminas
17. Guatemala
18. Ciencias políticas > Libros da láminas
19. Social problems > Guatemala > Pictorial works
20. Chiapas (México) > Historia > Rebelión de campesinos, 1994- > Libros da láminas
21. History
22. Nicaragua
23. Demonstrations > United States > Pictorial works
24. Peasant Uprising (Chiapas, Mexico : 1994-)
25. Chiapas (Mexico) > History > Peasant Uprising, 1994- > Pictorial works
26. Social problems > Nicaragua > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

1. Documentary photographs.
2. History.
3. Photobooks.
4. Pictorial works.

Contents

1. Los Confines / David Huerta -- Viajar con Turok / Blanche Petrich -- Nicaragua / Eduardo Vazquez Martin -- Hacia Chiapas / Eduardo Vazquez Martin -- Balance de blancos / Ana Emilia Felker -- Manifestante queman un autobus en Oaxaca / Coral Bracho -- Mexamerica: la incierta geografia / Juan Villoro -- English text.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Documentary photography; black and white photographs of social problems and protests in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala; Mexico; Detroit, Michigan; and possibly other locations in the United States. Includes essays by David Huerta, Blanche Petrich, María Cortina Icaza, Eduardo Vázquez Martín, Coral Bracho, Ana Emilia Felker, and Juan Villoro.

Language (note)

1. Includes essays in Spanish, and English translations or summaries of the essays on unnumbered pages 176-187.