Meiselas, Susan. Nicaragua - 2016 SIGNED

Meiselas, Susan. Nicaragua. June 1978 – July 1979. Edited with Claire Rosenberg. (Conversation with Kristen Lubben).
Second Aperture edition. New York, Aperture (2016). Quer-Gr.-8° (22 x
27,5 cm.). [3] Bl., 71 Farbtafeln, [19] Bl. mit 1 Karte.
Orig.-Leinenband mit farbig illustr. Schutzumschlag.

Auer 626. Parr/Badger II, 252. – Neuausgabe des wichtigsten Werks der Magnum Fotografin. – Von S. Meiselas signiert.
– „Some of the most vicious wars of the 1970s were fought in Latin
America, where Marxist or simply people’s revolts sought to overthrow
military dictatorships and the bleeding of a country’s resources by
small oligarchies. One such country was Nicaragua, where the generally
hated regime of President Anastasio ‚Tachito‘ Somoza, after a long and
bitter struggle, was defeated by the broadly left-wing but popular FSLN
(Sandinista National Liberation Front). The Magnum photographer Susan
Meiselas, by her own admission more or less stumbled into photographing
the conflict by accident, but then stayed in Nicaragua on and off until
Somoza was eventually ousted. From Meiselas’s involvement stemmed one of
the best war photobooks since those produced during the conflict in
Vietnam. Meiselas’s book is notable firstly because she shot it in
colour, at a time when black and white was stil regarded as de rigueur
for combat photography, although attitudes were changing around that
time. Colour was regarded as too distracting and not gritty enough for
photographing the harsh realities of war, despite thefact that blood is a
bright, unrealred. But in Nicaragua, she proved that colour has virtues
of its own, potentially adding irony and counteracting sentimentality. …
Nevertheless, Nicaragua remains a powerful and exemplary chronicle of
the kinds of conflict that proliferated in the late twentieth century“
(Martin Parr zur ersten Ausgabe, New York 1981). – Sehr gutes Exemplar.
New edition of the most important works by the Magnum photographer. – Signed by S. Meiselas. – Very good copy.