Juan Rulfo was one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth century. His 1955 novel Pedro Paramo is considered one of the foundational classics of magic realism, predating One Hundred Years of Solitude by more than a decade. Lesser known are his haunting photographs of Mexico, which exhibit remarkable parallels to his prose. The photographs, mainly taken between 1945 and 1955, do not tell stories: they present thoughts. The images of people and their land, women in their traditional dress, musicians with their ...
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Juan Rulfo was one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth century. His 1955 novel Pedro Paramo is considered one of the foundational classics of magic realism, predating One Hundred Years of Solitude by more than a decade. Lesser known are his haunting photographs of Mexico, which exhibit remarkable parallels to his prose. The photographs, mainly taken between 1945 and 1955, do not tell stories: they present thoughts. The images of people and their land, women in their traditional dress, musicians with their instruments, capture the calm, quiet, inner rhythms of Mexico's rural population. Rulfo extracts unique moments through his photographs; his images of desolate, abandoned buildings, their walls destroyed by artillery shells, are expressions of his nation's painful history. His quietly dramatic landscapes recall the work of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston while displaying a style that is truly his own. This collection of 175 images is the only comprehensive collection of Juan Rulfo's photographs available. The six essays preceding the images illuminate the photographs and pay tribute to one of Mexico's most enduring literary and visual artists.
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Good+ in a Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Jacket is moderately shelfworn and edgeworn with a few handling-marks, but is overall good and intact (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Moderate wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and text pages are all bright and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75"-12.75" tall); 3.9 lbs; Black and white photo to the jacket of family in clay house, and title in black lettering; 2002, Smithsonian Institution Press; 223 pages; "Juan Rulfo's Mexico, " by Carlos Fuentes, et al.