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Books - Foam List No. 3, January 09 von Sebastian Hau google english translation Schlagworte: Susan Meiselas, Paul Fusco, Stefania Gurdowa, Jens Olof Lasthein Susan Meiselas: "Nicaragua" Aperture 2008, ISBN 9781597110716 This is the long-awaited reprint of the famous Nicaragua book with the images Susan Meiselas took of the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza dictatorship between June 1978 and July 1979. The book starts with impressions from a country in turmoil, of a subdued and poor people, of the infamous National Guard and quickly moves to graffiti, demonstrations and then steps into the revolution, the war in the streets. There is a heroic side to this story as much as there are gruesome and shocking images of the dead and tortured. As a document to the victory of the oppressed, together with a chronology, quotes and captions that complete the book it is moving and unsettling. This was a revolution that Europe didn’t care about so much, and a historic event that was on the rim of everybody's attention the way in which Meiselas documented the hardships and the ultimate victory of the Sandinistas make this a very special book. Aperture will never be famous for its book design, but this one is well-produced and they have added a booklet with an interview with the author and a DVD with a film Meiselas produced later about Nicaragua. Magnum Photos has most of the images from the series available on its archive page: www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/c.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.BookDetail_VPage&pid=2K7O3R15NM54 Paul Fusco: "RFK" Aperture 2008, ISBN 978597110792 “RFK” is not a reprint but an extended version of "RFK Funeral train", a hard-to-find collector's item. I will not write about the totally unnecessary photos that have been added from the actual funeral and rather delve into the actual series, the journey from New York to Washington on a train that carried the body of Robert Kennedy, and the images Fusco took of the people along the tracks to commemorate or just watch the event. There are nearly 100 images of people along railroad tracks and each and every image is worth looking at. Maybe today, 40 years later, our interest is also guided 27.01.2009 1 | 2 | 3 | > google english translation Kommentar zu diesem Artikel ins Forum schreiben Email an den Autor Druckversion |
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