Luis González Palma: PHotoBolsillo - Softcover

Cazali, Rosina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8492841656 ISBN 13: 9788492841653

Publisher: La Fábrica, 2011

Synopsis

The rich sepia tone of a photograph by Luis González Palma (born 1957) is unmistakable: he colors his prints by hand but always leaves the whites of his portrait subject's eyes untinted to elicit a disconcerting but penetrating gaze. Working from Guatemala City since the 1980s, and exhibiting internationally since about 1989, Palma has made his long-term project the documentation of his country's indigenous Mayan population, which governmental policy has ferociously repressed during the last half-century. Often collaged with symbols and objects, Palma's pictures act as records of a population for whom violence and mysticism coexist. Colloquia, a more recent project, gathers portraits of Guatemalan artists as part of a larger effort to establish a museum for contemporary Guatemalan art. PHotoBolsillo's introduction to Palma's work surveys over two decades of his highly romantic and politically urgent photography.

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The rich sepia tone of Luis Gonzalez Palma's photography (b.1957) is unmistakable. He colours his prints by hand but always leaves the whites of his subject's eyes untinted to elicit a disconcerting but penetrating gaze. Working from Guatemala City since the 1980s, and exhibiting internationally since about 1989, Palma has made his long-term project the documentation of his country's indigenous and ferociously repressed Mayan population.

About this edition

• Publisher: La Fábrica
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8492841656
• ISBN 13: 9788492841653
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112