Product Details
Paperback
127 pages
W.W. Norton & Company
Published 1997
Ingram
Magnum photographer Larry Towell first traveled to El Salvador in 1986 as a member of a human rights delegation. Towell's photographs take a compelling look at a tumultuous country racked by civil war until the early 1990s, but where, amid brutality and death, there is still a harsh beauty as people grieve, wash clothes, nurse infants, and forage for food. 62 photos.
About the Author
Larry Towell is a member of Magnum Photos and a freelance photographer and writer. He lives in Ontario, Canada. Mark Danner is the author of The Massacre of El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War.
Book Description
A deeply compelling look at a tumultuous country, Larry Towell's photographs are at once powerful and compassionate, revealing a country of violence, heartbreak, strength, and dignity. Magnum photographer Larry Towell first traveled to El Salvador in 1986 as a member of a human rights delegation. Since the beginning of the civil war in 1979, 50,000 people had been killed, 25 percent of the population were refugees, and death squads terrorized the nation. The war ended in the early 1990s and Towell had thoroughly documented both the war and its aftermath. Towell is perhaps one of the finest photojournalists since Cartier-Bresson. In these haunting photographs, we see a world in which everyone becomes a combatant and every place a war zone. Yet amid the brutality and death there is a harsh beauty people grieve and move on; peasant women wash clothes and nurse infants under the eyes of soldiers; children with hopeful faces forage the dumpsites for food. |
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