Description
Bruce Herman Photography, Published 2016. Hardcover, 72 pp.; 26 x 26 cm; text in English and Spanish; First Printing; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Aubergine-brown cloth boards with copper medallion and lettering on front cover; mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Glossy black pictorial dust jacket with color photographs of a man in Day of the Dead face paint on front panel and a girl holding a bowl of fruit on rear panel; mild shelf and edge wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Collection of photographs of Mexico by Bruce Herman, a travel and commercial photographer based in Los Cabos, taken between 1996 and 2015. Includes portraits of Cora and Huichol people in Nayarit, scenes in Chiapas, Michoacan and Oaxaca, charros in San Jose del Cabo, and Day of the Dead observances in village cemeteries. A bilingual "About the Photos / Sobre las fotos" section gives the story behind each picture. Herman twice received Mexico's Lente de Plata (Silver Lens) award for his contribution to Mexican tourism, presented by presidents Ernesto Zedillo and Vicente Fox. In his acknowledgments he names Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky as influences.