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El retrato de tu ausencia

Title
El retrato de tu ausencia / images by Alejandro Lupercaʺ Morales ; [designed by Fernando Gallegos ; project management by Janne Riikonen].
Author
Morales, Alejandro, Luperca, 1990-
Publication
[Mexico] : Los Sumergidos ; [Stockholm] : Kult Books, [2023]

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Additional Authors
  • Riikonen, Janne
  • Gallegos, Fernando
Description
110 pages : illustrations, color portraits; 23 cm
Summary
During a period of six years Alejandro Morales collected more than 500 photographs depicting bodies published in his local newspaper P.M. in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The time of extreme violence made Ciudad Juárez among the most violent cities in the world, marked by the large number of intentional homicides committed in its streets. The limits of what the press could publish were blurred as it was so common to find oneself in the middle of a shootout or come across an abandoned corpse. Morales removed all the corpses that he found in the photographs in the P.M. Newspaper by manually erasing them with a gum eraser.Morales approached the newspaper from its name, understanding it as a Post Mortemʺ space. When what was supposed to be in the image no longer appeared, the void that was left opened up a chance to think about what was actually happening. The softness of the eraser, the duration of the erasing process and its ritual connotations confront the immediacy and brutality of these cases. These new images intend to grant an opportunity for mourning, a more dignified form of death.
Subject
  • Morales, Alejandro, Luperca, 1990-
  • Photojournalism > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez
  • Violence in art
  • Dead in art
  • Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Pictorial works
  • Altered prints
  • Photography, Handworked
Genre/Form
  • Pictorial works.
  • Photobooks.
  • Backless bindings (Binding)
  • Photobooks
  • Pictorial works
Note
  • Spine title.
  • Spine partly detached, with visible glued strip as spine.
  • Lenticular photographs mounted on covers.
  • Run 600.
  • Publication information from publisher's website.
  • Co-published by Kult Books and Los Sumergidos.
Language (note)
  • In English.
ISBN
  • 9789198760651
  • 9198760653
OCLC
  • on1391381727
  • 1391381727
  • SCSB-14551480
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries