NICARAGUA (SIGNED)

Susan Meiselas
NICARAGUA (SIGNED)

Photographs: Susan Meiselas

Text: Kristen Lubben

Publisher: Aperture

128 pages

Pictures: 75

Year: 2016

ISBN: 9781597113830

Price: 70 €

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 22,4 x 27,5, color photographs. Second aperture edition of 2006. In very good condition other than traces of use on the dust jacket. Text in English. Signed by Susan Meiselas.

Nicaragua forms an extraordinary narrative of a nation in turmoil. Starting with a powerful and chilling evocation of the Somoza regime during its decline in the late 1970s, the images trace the evolution of the popular resistance that led to the insurrection, culminating with the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in 1979. The book includes interviews of various participants in the revolution, many of whom Meiselas got to know while photographing them. Excerpts from these interviews, gathered during her return to Nicaragua in early 1981, accompany the plates in the book.

A conversation with Kristen Lubben addresses the history of Meiselas’s work in Nicaragua, how it has been circulated, revisited, repatriated, and reconsidered—how and why it endures. Meiselas and Alfred Guzzetti, coproducer and codirector of Pictures from a Revolution, expand upon this as they discuss the layered content experience of AR.

(From the publisher's website)