El Despertar de Quetzgull
#cartonero #francachela #larueda Editorial Pato Con Canclas, San Luis Potosi
#cartonero #francachela #larueda Editorial Pato Con Canclas, San Luis Potosi
The absence of faces is an accidental effect of the difficult lighting conditions, but I like the way the image can be read as a reduction of the situation to social roles. The two people deserve to be identified, however, in language if not by faces. The man on the left is Patrick O’Hare, an anthopologist from Glasgow (via a doctorate at Cambridge) now working on a comparative study of cardboard publishing in Latin America, and the […]
This is one of the great coincidences of history. Fidel, the dapper law student in the center, was scheduled to meet with Gaitan that afternoon. But Gaitan, the candidate of the people and the likely victor in the next presidential election, was murdered when he went out for lunch. And so, instead of a meeting, there was a riot that tore down much of el centro Bogotá and the beginning of a civil war that has continued, […]