Is this Tomorrow (Casa del Ahuizote, 2018) by Juan Orrantia

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Is this Tomorrow (Casa del Ahuizote, 2018)

Copyright Juan Orrantia 2024

Date of Work Dec 1969 - Dec 1969

Updated Mar 2019

Topics Capitalism, Civil Wars, Dictatorship, Documentary, Freedom, Genocide, Human Rights, Latin America, Military, Militias, Mixed Medium, Peace, Photography, Politics, Revolution, War

Is this tomorrow (2018). Collaborative project with Zahara Gómez and Mauricio Palos. Taking its name from the 1947 anticommunist American comic book, this book brings together different strands of effects of the Cold War in Latin America. The main approach is the idea of the archive as a site of intervention. We conceive as archive old documents, books, photographs and monuments. Our main thread is a counterinsurgency manual from the School of the Americas which we then intervene with juxtapositions of archival/historical photographs, manipulated images, fragments of interviews from relatives and people involved in disappearances in Argentina and Mexico, former FARC guerrillas and sites of battles in Colombia, Guatemalan archives, and forensic landscapes.

Shortlisted Arles, Les Recontres de la Photograhie, Prix Photo Text, 2019

Editorial Design and set-up Zahara, Juan and Mauricio

Adjustment of design and printing Casa del Ahuizote / Adrián Tapia

Casa del Ahuizote, Mexico.
21.5 x 28 cms
Risograph printing on newsprint, two inks.
Edition of 100
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10,980

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