Peso chileno
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Two great photographers, two months of September at opposite ends of the spectrum: this book tells the story of the events that have marked Chilean history through the lenses of two figures of photojournalism. In September 1971, Raymond Depardon went to Santiago to capture the excitement that followed the election of socialist President Salvador Allende in 1970, before continuing his trip to the south of the country. Two years later, in September 1973, it was David Burnett's turn to arrive in the Chilean capital shortly after General Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état, photographing the tense and terror moments that followed. This immersion in Chile in the 1970s questions what the country has become today in the face of current challenges, fifty years after the events. At the heart of these two photographic parts that make up the book, we discover the reproduction of Leopoldo Vargas' iconic photograph, capturing the last image of Salvador Allende alive, emerging from La Moneda, the presidential palace, gun in hand. Several texts by Robert Pledge and Luis Poirot punctuate and contextualize this double visual corpus. They are complemented by two personal accounts of the time: that of Sonja Martinson Uppman, former secretary at the Swedish embassy in Chile in 1973, who managed to protect and exfiltrate nearly 80 people threatened by the military junta, and that of Alejandra Matus, then a little girl at the time of the coup d'état and the 17 years of her youth that followed, marked by dictatorship.