So That All Shall Know/Para que todos lo sepan

Table of Contents * Foreword: The Vantage Point of Memory / Prólogo: El mirador de la memoria (Rigoberta Menchú Tum) * Introduction / Presentación (Oscar Iván Maldonado) * Angels, Conquests, and Memory / Ángeles, conquistas y memoria (W. George Lovell) * Portfolio: Daniel Hernández-Salazar, Photojournalist / Daniel Hernández-Salazar, fotoperiodista * Icon of Memory / Icono para la memoria (Miguel Flores Castellanos) * Portfolio: Eros + Thanatos * Daniel Hernández-Salazar, Postmodern Humanist / Daniel Hernández-Salazar, un humanista posmoderno (Michael A. Weinstein) * Portfolio: Memory of an Angel / Memoria de un ángel * Photography, Urban Space, and the Historical Memory of Atrocity: The Angel Series / Fotografía, espacio urbano y la memoria histórica de la atrocidad: La serie del ángel (Steven Hoelscher) * Biographies / Biografías Introduction Years pass. They pile up like pages in a book. Everything goes unpunished. I have to scream. —Daniel Hernández-Salazar, Memoria de un ángel [Exhibition text] In 1993, Daniel Hernández-Salazar asked me to write a text to accompany his photo exhibit Rostros de la Música (Faces of Music). It was a show of portraits of traditional musicians from different ethnomusical regions in Guatemala. I was already familiar with Daniel and his work, but writing this text allowed me to delve deeper into his oeuvre and get a better grasp of the principles upon which his artistic work is founded. Two features of Daniel's work impressed me: first, his rigor for recording facts and personalities; and second, his commitment to documenting key moments in Guatemala. What I did not mention at the time, something I still find striking, is the dignity that Daniel captured in the persons he photographed. His portraiture bestowed on each musician the dignity that marginalization and oblivion had wrested from them. More than a decade on, I realize that restoring dignity to people whom circumstances have marginalized and forgotten is a primordial concern that drives Daniel's work. I allude not only to his series on traditional musicians but also to his entire work, including what he has achieved in photojournalism. Ever since I have known him, I have appreciated his work intimately and understand his concern for making artistic creation a factor in social change. I find it natural for him, therefore, to shift from art galleries to public spaces and from decorative aesthetics to the truth as his central theme. Although many people observe a certai

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Texas Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

184

ISBN

9780292714670

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