{"id":54347,"date":"2023-03-21T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=54347"},"modified":"2023-03-20T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:38:43","slug":"omen-phantasmagoria-at-the-farm-security-administration-1935-1944-leon-munoz-santini-jorge-panchoaga-gato-negro-ediciones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=54347","title":{"rendered":"Omen: Phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration (1935-1944). Le\u00f3n Mu\u00f1oz Santini, Jorge Panchoaga. Gato Negro Ediciones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chasing the ghost, the traces of oblivion, and the echoes of what was and no longer is, the book \u201cOmen\u201d is a revision and reframing of the fraction of the photographic archive of the Farm Security Administration (1935-1944) hosted at the New York Public Library. That program\u2014perhaps there is no need to add\u2014was one of the milestones of modern documentary photography, instrumental on the constructing an hegemonic narrative; one mainly about triumph against adversity, division, and catastrophe in the recent history of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But by stressing the gaze over that monumental set of images, and scrutinizing at the corners of the pictures, at the backgrounds and details\u2014in the secondary characters, in what should not be there, that which appears by chance, accident or error\u2014 it is possible to discover a different narrative, one that is thicker, murkier, more troubled, complex, contemporary and contradictory. Both a shatter and an apex: a premonition of the genealogical continuity of the many (tumultuous, visible and invisible, thunderous and silent) systemic violence that make up the face of American society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A book that serves as a mirror of the distressing reality of the United States in our days, and, a the same time, as a device for reflection on the way historical and documentary photography is read and understood, taking the editorial eye to its ultimate consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photographs by Russell Lee, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Gordon Parks, Jack Delano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excavations at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concept and selection by Le\u00f3n Mu\u00f1oz Santini, Jorge Panchoaga
Edition by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chasing the ghost, the traces of oblivion, and the echoes of what was and no longer is, the book \u201cOmen\u201d is a revision and reframing of the fraction of the photographic archive of the Farm Security Administration (1935-1944) hosted at the New York Public Library. That program\u2014perhaps there is no need to add\u2014was one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[644,14,614],"tags":[3708,8883,7165,8882,8853,8852,8881,8854,8851,8843,6704],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54354,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54347\/revisions\/54354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}