Portraits Of An Invisible Country
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Portraits Of An Invisible Country
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Author : José Luis Falconi
language : en
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Release Date : 2010
Portraits Of An Invisible Country written by José Luis Falconi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Colombia categories.
Jorge Mario Múnera is renowned in Colombia as one of the most prolific and influential photographers of his generation. Portraits of an Invisible Country comprises a book of essays on his diverse body of work and sixteen photo posters, which together highlight his travels in Colombia and his careful depiction of his countrymen and women.
Invisible Country
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Author : Annamaria Alfieri
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2012-07-03
Invisible Country written by Annamaria Alfieri and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-03 with Fiction categories.
From the author of City of Silver, a beautifully rich and puzzling historical mystery set in Paraguay, 1868 A war against Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay has devastated Paraguay. Ninety percent of the males between the ages of eight and eighty have died in the conflict and food is scarce. In the small village of Santa Caterina, Padre Gregorio advises the women of his congregation to abandon the laws of the church and get pregnant by what men are available. As he leaves the pulpit, he discovers the murdered body of Ricardo Yotté, one of the most powerful men in the country, at the bottom of the belfry. There are many suspects: Eliza Lynch, a former Parisian courtesan who is now the consort of the brutal dictator, Francisco Solano López, and who entrusted to Yotté the country's treasury of gold and jewels; López himself, who may have suspected his ally Yotté of carrying on an affair with the beautiful Eliza; Comandante Luis Menenez, local representative of the dictator, who competed with Yotté for López's favor, and a wounded Brazilian soldier who has secretly taken up with one of the village girls. Lynch is desperate to recover the missing gold, and the comandante is desperate to prove his usefulness to López. To avoid having an innocent person dragged off to torture and death, a band of villagers undertake to solve the crime, including Padre Gregorio, the village midwife, her crippled husband returned from combat, their spirited daughter, and a war widow. Each carries secrets they seek to protect from the others, while they pursue their quest for the truth. Lyrical, complex, and meticulously researched, Annamaria Alfieri's Invisible Country is an ingenious cross between Isabel Allende and Agatha Christie.
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language : en
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Release Date : 2024
Heat written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Artists' books categories.
"I am interested in the whole spectrum, revealing human beings at all times of life. I am especially drawn to people who are brimming with a life force, those close to death and those whose lives are most affected by visibility and invisibility. These portraits are captured using a high-resolution thermal camera. It takes away the familiar. It creates ambiguity to the physical characteristics that can socially divide us, such as color, gender or age. Pigmentation, tattoos, hair color cease to exist. Marks and wrinkles on the skin often disappear. The depth of field and three-dimensional object are flattened, and the figure comes to the forefront, often isolated in space, floating in nothingness, the absence of gravity. It’s disorienting. It’s not clear where the surfaces are. The images don’t connect to previous assumptions. Instead, radiating from each portrait are the biological commonalities that unite us—breath, sweat, inflammation and the warm circulation of blood. We are forced to see differently. The thermal camera enables me to present an alternate vision of what a portrait can be—one that void of prejudice by having stripped the markers that trigger habitual responses. At a time when we are so divided in this country, in this age of polarity and punishment, with partisan politics and strangled language, my interest is in what connects us, the raw humanity within us. My hope is to inspire people to see that connectivity." -- artists' website.
Larawan
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Author : Lenny Limjoco
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Larawan written by Lenny Limjoco and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Travel categories.
Haunting Without Ghosts
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Author : Juliana Martínez
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2020-12-01
Haunting Without Ghosts written by Juliana Martínez and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Winner, William M. LeoGrande Prize, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University, 2022 For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism—above all, the works of Gabriel García Márquez—where ghosts told stories about the country’s violent past and warned against a similarly gruesome future. Decades later, the story of violence in Colombia is no less horrific, but the critical resources of magical realism are depleted. In their wake comes "spectral realism." Juliana Martínez argues that recent Colombian novelists, filmmakers, and artists—from Evelio Rosero and William Vega to Beatriz González and Erika Diettes—share a formal and thematic concern with the spectral but shift the focus from what the ghost is toward what the specter does. These works do not speak of ghosts. Instead, they use the specter to destabilize reality by challenging the authority of human vision and historical chronology. By introducing the spectral into their work, these artists decommodify well-worn modes of representing violence and create a critical space from which to seek justice for the dead and disappeared. A Colombia-based study, Haunting without Ghosts brings powerful insight to the politics and ethics of spectral aesthetics, relevant for a variety of sociohistorical contexts.
The Invisible Stranger
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Author : Russell Banks
language : en
Publisher: Harper
Release Date : 1999-06-23
The Invisible Stranger written by Russell Banks and has been published by Harper this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-23 with Photography categories.
In this unique collaboration Arturo Patten, one of the most important portrait photographers of our time, and acclaimed writer Russell Banks visit the hardscrabble north country of Patten, Maine, to study its inhabitants. Patten's haunting portraits of the town's residents evoke characters who exist in Russell Banks's fiction. Banks, the author of Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction, observes Patten's "characters" from his remote cabin in the Adirondack hills of upstate New York, where he surrounds himself with the thirty-seven portraits and contemplates what they tell us about Patten, Maine, about portraiture, and ultimately about ourselves. The Invisible Stranger, therefore, becomes nothing less than a meditation on what it means to be human. By becoming the "invisible stranger" and obscuring himself behind the camera's lens, Patten allows his subjects to emerge and then presents them to the viewer, who, seeing these individuals, also sees himself. Banks, too, acts as the "invisible stranger," studying the townspeople from hundreds of miles away and reflecting on the complex relationships between photographer and subject, subject and observer. Taken together, Patten's portraits and Banks's commentary offer a dramatic and provocative combination of word and image.
The Invisible Poor
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Author : World Bank
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2010-03-01
The Invisible Poor written by World Bank and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-01 with Social Science categories.
'The Invisible Poor' seeks to raise the profile of the rural poor in Argentina, promote dialogue on rural poverty issues, provide the best currently available information about rural poverty, and offer a basis for discussions on how to expand household survey data collection to rural areas. Most previous work has been based on case studies or one-time surveys in a few provinces and consequently has been of limited use for drawing conclusions about rural conditions overall in Argentina. Largely because of data limitations, profound gaps exist in the understanding of rural poverty in Argentina. As a result, the rural poor have sometimes been neglected in policy discussions. This study does not directly address policy responses. Rather it seeks to provide an analytical basis for understanding the conditions of rural life, with the ultimate goal of helping policy makers improve the welfare of Argentina s rural poor through evidence-based policy.
The Invisible Shining
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Author : Bal zs Apor
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-01
The Invisible Shining written by Bal zs Apor and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Political Science categories.
This book offers a detailed analysis of the construction, reception and eventual decline of the cult of the Hungarian Communist Party Secretary, M ty s R kosi, one of the most striking examples of orchestrated adulation in the Soviet bloc. While his cult never approached the magnitude of that of Stalin, R kosi?s ambition to outshine the other ?best disciples? and become the best of the best was manifest in his diligence in promoting a Soviet-type following in Hungary. The main argument of Bal zs Apor is that the cult of personality is not just a curious aspect of communist dictatorship, it is an essential element of it. The monograph is primarily concerned with techniques and methods of cult construction, as well as the role various institutions played in the creation of mythical representations of political fi gures. Separate chapters present visual and non-visual methods of cult construction. The author engages with a wider international literature on Stalinist cults in an impressive manner. Apor uses the case of R kosi to explore how personality cults are created, how such cults are perceived, and how they are eventually unmade. The book addresses the success?generally questionable?of such projects, as well as their uncomfortable legacies.
American Portraits
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Author : Michael Clinton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-07
American Portraits written by Michael Clinton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Photography categories.
Together, the 93 Americans in these portraits trace their ancestry to 100 different countries. While the images remind us just how diverse Americans look, the brief autobiographical descriptions appearing on the page of each subject to prove that what binds all Americans together is our forefathers' dreams for a better life.
Invisible State
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Author : Jama Gulaid
language : en
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Release Date : 2024-06-12
Invisible State written by Jama Gulaid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ancient Egyptians revered Somaliland for its frankincense. Colonial Britain held on to the country to secure meat for its military garrison in Aden, and the superpowers jostled for control due to its strategic location at the southern gate of the Red Sea. Independence brought celebrations and a surge of children attending schools. Then, the atmosphere changed with recurrent droughts, military repressions, and wars. How did the people fare? What challenges did the post-independence generation encounter? What are the social and environmental challenges associated with these upheavals? Jama Gulaid, a career United Nations civil servant and a graduate of local schools, explored these and other questions on his first visit to the country in 35 years. Invisible State is a candid memoir and a remarkable portrait of an independent nation that remains largely unknown.