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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Bostelmann, Enrique; photographer. América: un viage a través de la injusticia. [169] photographs in gravure on [160] pages. [15] preliminary pages plus illustrated endpapers. Oblong 4to, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, minimal wear; contents clean. In original illustrated tray case, minor soiling to top cover. Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 1970
first edition. The title translates to "America: A Journey through Injustice." Bostelmann's photographs of poverty and oppression are presented without captions, introduced with a 7-page preface by the novelist Carlos Fuentes. "Bostelmann was one of Mexico's leading postwar photojournalists. . . . and one looking to expose injustice everywhere. America: Un viaje a través de la injusticia is correctly considered his masterpiece. . . . The book is a photographic account of Bostelmann's journeying through Latin America, looking at the injustices still meted out to the Indian and the mestizo in the region. . .. Bostelmann's style is that of the gritty street photographer, but he has a cinematic sense of narrative and takes care not to be too dramatic, letting the pictures speak for themselves"--Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, pages II:110-1.
