Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America 1866-1994 by Wendy Watriss - Hardcover Nonfiction Art Book - Perfect for Photography Enthusiasts & Latin American History Studies

Watriss, Wendy and Lois Parkinson Zamora. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998

English and Spanish, Near Fine hardcover, oblong quarto, 10 ¼” x 10 13/16”, 449 pp

ISBN:0292791186

Near Fine oblong quarto, gray cloth over boards, stamped gilt lettering to spine, gray endpapers, bumping to head and tail, minimal bumping to tips, minimal sunning to top edge, tight binding, clean interior. Near Fine red gatefold dust jacket, image of man in side profile, “Untitled”, Alexander Apostol, 1989 to front, beige and white lettering to front and spine, minimal edgewear, minimal bumping to head and tail, protected by Mylar sleeve. Text in English and Spanish, Essays by Boris Kossoy and Fernando Castro, Plates, Artist Biographies, replete with black-and-white and full-color photographs of 50 photographers from 10 Latin American countries, a compelling survey of images from FotoFest 1992 that range from the opening of the Brazilian frontier in the 1880s to El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war to aesthetic and experimental works.