Edge of Time Photographs of Mexico by Mariana Yampolsky

Name: Edge of Time Photographs of Mexico by Mariana Yampolsky
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ISBN: 9780292796041

ISBN-10: 0292796048

ISBN-13: 9780292796041

Edition: 1998

Authors: Mariana Yampolsky, Elena Poniatowska, Francisco Reyes Palma, Sandra Berler, Elena Poniatowska

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"This is my country." Mariana Yampolsky knew it the moment she opened her window and saw a bougainvillea blooming against a white wall on her first morning in Mexico City in 1944. Her empathy for the Mexican people and their land has guided her work for more than fifty years, finding expression in books of dramatic black-and-white photographs ranging from her early La casa en la tierra and La casa que canta to The Traditional Architecture of Mexico . The Edge of Time presents a retrospective of Yampolsky' photographic work since 1960. Reflecting her lifelong concerns, the images capture rural Mexico and its people with respect and infinite care. They function as works of art and as…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 10.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Elena Poniatowska is the author of more than forty works, including the classic Massacre in Mexico and the novels Dear Diego and Tinisima (FSG, 1996). She lives in Mexico City.



Foreword



Introduction



Mariana Yampolsky: An Artistic Commitment


The People: Plates 1-28


Their Celebrations: Plates 29-54


Afterword by Francisco Reyes Palma


And Thus We Resist Death: The Photographic Cycles of Mariana Yampolsky


Notes on Contributors


List of Photographs


Curriculum Vitae: Mariana Yampolsky Urbach


Bibliography