tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7521112238470325210..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Marcelo Montecino: Broken hidalgo (Security, Colombia)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80926856442906591282020-08-29T18:58:22.898-07:002020-08-29T18:58:22.898-07:00How I miss this. Invaluable. RIP Tom
Hanford Wood...How I miss this. Invaluable. RIP Tom<br /><br />Hanford WoodsHanford Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415085044561156724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67042037946286010192018-07-30T18:13:59.119-07:002018-07-30T18:13:59.119-07:00Thanks very much, Duncan. That is what the Montec...Thanks very much, Duncan. That is what the Montecino work provides, that otherwise largely lost history. It is what he intended, and what he made. There's nothing quite like it. Certainly such a career would be very hard to understand from where we now are.<br /><br />A few facts. Chilean diplomatic family. Youth and university in the US (BA, and a master's in art theory). Back home to Chile, and then two decades of close observation of the rise and fall of the dictatorship (his brother Christian, also a photographer, got close enough to see what was going on, but a bit too close, and was murdered for his trouble). Much of the Colombian work comes from that same time. Sometimes he worked as a translator and interpreter for the OAS and the UN, which helps account for the extraordinary access that made some of his historical shots possible. During the same period he also covered popular struggles and revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, traversed the mountains and jungles and cities and villages of Mexico and Bolivia and Peru, always learning, trying to understand, and always taking pictures, and gradually in thus wise built up what now amounts to the single most impressive visual record of modern political life across the Americas.<br /><br />After the restoration of democracy in Chile his work becomes more personal, but because he was always working independently, there is an originality and consistency of method that persists and becomes deeper over the years. In this respect he stands alone as a photographic witness of his times, in his half of the planet.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5766097129097288972018-07-30T11:43:20.752-07:002018-07-30T11:43:20.752-07:00These Montecino photo make for an invaluable histo...These Montecino photo make for an invaluable history of South America. <br /><br />It seems the ghosts of the generals will not be exorcised.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.com