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The Life of Colombia
Author: Jeremy Horner

A man sets out on a journey through an unknown country. His path has been previously determined. His mission is to capture scenes along his way with his camera lens. He knows nothing about the country where the editor has put him. He begins the ideal journey, one of discovery, of adventure, his testimony will be composed of images rather than me... more »mories. The trip will be marked by the job and enthusiasm for everything new. The country: Colombia. The photographer: Jeremy Horner, an Englishman. The editor: Benjamín Villegas. The result: a very important book in its genre. Perhaps the most complete photographic report to date about daily life in this country.

It grasps, in a broad and all-embracing view, the country's complex diversity. Here we have a vivid, clear and enlightening perspective of its people, of its different ethnic groups inscribed in its various regions and landscapes. From now on such a seminal selection of pictures will be an essential reference work for the direct, truthful and immediate understanding of Colombia.

The cities. Big, medium and small. The villages, hamlets and, of course, the vast geography of the Colombian countryside have been fixed in eloquent images, in beautiful and memorable photographic compositions, rich in content and moments evocative of the different activities of its people. But never in a distant, chimerical, abstract or idealized manner. And never of course in postcard fashion, nor as seen from a cautious distance by a tourist's superficial curiosity. Not at all. This is undoubtedly the real, living country, the country of everyday, of Colombian. The country which is being continually built, which struggles and toils, which loves, lives and dies, and which is reborn everyday in the miracle of hope.

In some way this book confronts the horror of cheap journalism, which, with sinister sensationalistic intent, dwells uniquely on the most shocking aspects of our violent upheavals. Therefore, this book is a song of hope as well as a document. It proposes the daily, friendly, generous and enterprising vision of an entire people. With a backgrouond of traditions, man and his work. And culture which expresses its existence in society within the order of daily, festive or religious life. Here, the reader encounters the extraordinary visual wealth of a nation, the variety of its activities, the concern for its progress, whether technological, urbanistic or human, and all this bathed in the glory of our local colour.

The purpose of The Life of Colombia is to discover or rediscover the whole country, from north to south, east to west, in its great variety of shades and traits. A feat accomplished by the photographer, sensitive to such details which, though belonging to everyday life, represent the best and most meaningful of our human environment, of our country's geographic configuration and its cultural and social activity.

ISBN-13: 9789589138991
ISBN-10: 9589138993
Publication Date: 9/8/2001
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Villegas Editores
Book Type: Hardcover
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Arts & Photography >> Photography & Video >> Photo Essays
Arts & Photography >> Photography & Video >> Travel >> South America
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