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Autor: LUIS GONZALEZ PALMA
Editorial: La Fabrica
Lenguaje: Español
ISBN13: 9788415691884
Reseña: This is a sumptuous survey of Gonzalez Palmas artistic evolution. Luis Gonzalez Palma is modernist photographer born 1957 in Guatemala City where he later opened up a celebrated portrait studio. Palma studied architecture and cinematography at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and then turned to photography. He has had 58 dedicated exhibitions of his work in Europe and America over the past 25 years. Of mixed Native background Palmas photography focuses on the plight of the indigenous Mayas and mestizo (mixed) people of Guatemala. His photographs evoke psychological and cultural issues embodying what these people have gone through since before during and after the genocide of their race. Symbolism is important in Palmas work along with which he uses sepia tints but tending to leave the whites of the eyes untinted in order to intensify the subjects gaze. Critics say this helps bring out the issues that the artist is trying to explain or explore. Another major part of his oeuvre is collage layering on top of his subjects a mix of key words or symbols. Palma declares that he tries to portray the soul of a people in his photographs but - inevitably - there are those who accuse him of exploitation.
