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Title

Spiritual passports : the unseen images of an artist who never lived to see them = Pasaportes espirituales : imágenes nunca vistas de una artista que no vivió para verlas / Susan Cox & Alford B. Johnson ; photography by Martha Wood ; poetry by Pablo Neruda.

Publication

Chicago : Portable Museums : Distributed by University of Texas Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Wood, Martha, 1944-2004.
• Cox, Susan (Graphic designer)
• Johnson, Alford B.
• Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations; 27 x 39 cm

Summary

What we know of Martha Wood's spiritual quest we know only from images composed in her mind's eye and recovered from her camera after her sudden death in the Andean highlands of Peru--images that she never saw on film. Wood had traveled to Peru with her husband, Andy Johnson, and a group of friends. Pursuing separate journeys, they were to meet at the fabled Inca city of Machu Picchu. But fate intervened, and Wood passed away silently in the quiet hours of night. Examples of contemporary Mexican amate paper, reminiscent of the "spiritual passports" the Aztec placed on their dead, complement Wood's photographs throughout this tribute to an artist who never lived to see her finest work.

Alternative Title

• Pasaportes espirituales : imágenes nunca vistas de una artista que no vivió para verlas
• Unseen images

Subject

• Wood, Martha, 1944-2004 > Travel > Peru
• Wood, Martha 2004 > Travel > Peru
• Wood, Martha, 1944-2004
• Travel
• Peru > Pictorial works
• Peru

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780615276625
• 0615276628

LCCN

2009907692

OCLC

• 471808986
• SCSB-9917834

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library