Our Culture is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge and Healing in Guatemala | 
 enlarge | Author: Jonathan Moller
Publisher: Powerhouse Cultural Entertainment Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 953622
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 213
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 9.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 1576872122
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.8105200222
EAN: 9781576872123
ASIN: 1576872122
Publication Date: December 1, 2004
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Moving, important, beautiful June 18, 2007
Fanta (Milan, Italy)
I first came to know about Jonathan Moller and his work from the Lenswork magazine. I was struck by an incredibly powerful photograph of an old woman, indigenous of Guatemala, who shows the picture of a younger man, looking down at it full of sorrow. The photograph, that was in the magazine and is also in the book, made me want to know more about that woman and her story. If photographs cannot narrate a story by themselves, the accompanying text in the book does, and the pictures witness and represent the tragedy that Guatemalans endured in the early 80s, the exhumation of the remains of the victims, to give them proper burial, the healing and reconstruction, the return to a "normal" life, to work, to growing children. I wouldn't have known of the genocide of the Guatemalans, it it wasn't for J. Moller pictures. It may be the text that tells the story, also in a lyric way, but the pictures made me want to know about it. They have a powerful emotional impact, one after another, they hit you between the eyes, and are indeed beautiful and beautifully reproduced.
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