Bostelmann, Enrique

America: Un Viaje a Traves De La Injusticia [1970 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING]

Siglo veintiuno editores sa, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 1970. Hardcover in half black cloth with white lettering to spine and pictorial paper-covered boards. First Edition, First Priting. Limited to only 3000 copies issued world wide. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated with about 170 pages illustrated with 171 striking photogravures. BOOK CONDITION:Very Good Plus; overall a solid, clean copy, with a strong binding, clean interior, showing wear to paper with slight loss and exposed cardboard at corners/tips of front cover, light rubbing and soiling to both covers, rubbing and light wear to cloth along both joints, and a very heart-felt, neatly-penned gift inscription to title page dated 2-8-72 (and much in keeping with the book's theme)l Overall a collectible copy of a scarce book.

Enrique Bostelmann (1939-2003) is considered to be one of the most important Mexican photographers of the second half of the 20th century. His work influenced the conceptualist movement in the 1970s and in his photo-essay "América · un viaje a través de la injusticia" Bostelmann chronicles the social problems facing primarily the impoverished indigenous throughout Mexico and other countries in Latin America. "Issued in Mexico City in the wake of its Olympics and late sixties student and political upheaval, it has become widely viewed in recent years as one of the defining photographically illustrated "protest books" of that decade of unrest. Its preface is in the form of a five page holographic reproduction of an original contribution by noted Mexican literary titan Carlos Fuentes" (Page 110 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History, Volume II). Very good +. Item #2443

Price: $1,250.00