{"id":98004,"date":"2016-11-26T07:04:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T07:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=98004"},"modified":"2016-11-22T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T12:04:39","slug":"book-review-nicaragua-june-1978-july-1979-by-susan-meiselas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/book_reviews\/book-review-nicaragua-june-1978-july-1979-by-susan-meiselas\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Nicaragua &#8211; June 1978-July 1979 by Susan Meiselas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_98009&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98009 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-Muchachos.jpg\" alt=\"Nicaragua Susan Meiselas Muchachos\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-Muchachos.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-Muchachos.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-Muchachos.jpg?resize=602,400 602w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-Muchachos.jpg?resize=900,599 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-Muchachos.jpg?resize=562,374 562w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-Muchachos.jpg?resize=600,400 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Muchachos await the counterattack by the National Guard in Matagalpa.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>What exactly do we mean by the term &#8216;concerned photojournalism&#8217;? In <em>The Concerned Photographer<\/em> (1968), Hungarian American photographer (and younger brother of Robert) Cornell Capa articulated perhaps the clearest definition of the term: &#8216;images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.\u2019 Similarly, the writer David Campbell argues that \u2018photojournalism \u2013 that broad swathe of photographic practice that tells visual stories about the world, and which can include documentary, editorial, news or social photography \u2013 has a particular responsibility and a particular opportunity to both represent the world better and make better worlds imaginable.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s with these thoughts in mind that we find ourselves in the company of Aperture\u2019s recent republication of Susan Meiselas\u2019s contemporary classic volume <em>Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979<\/em>. In <em>Nicaragua<\/em>, Meiselas attempts to build a narrative of a country that was at the time in a state of fierce transition.<\/p>\n<p>The Somoza dynasty that had held a dictatorial grip on the country since the mid-1930s was on the verge of collapse. By the late 1970s the dictatorship had begun to face opposition that, in its arrogance, it perhaps wasn\u2019t prepared for. In 1961, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), a revolutionary group that established itself within a milieu of oppositional organisations, and youth and student groups, was founded. Over time its force and politics grew stronger and by the 1970s it was launching military initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>To give you some idea of the corruption that the US-backed Somoza family were capable of, following a 6.2 magnitude earthquake that destroyed much of the city of Managua, President Anastasio Somoza Debayle\u2019s National Guard embezzled a vast majority of the international aid that flowed into the country. On top of that, through a bit of creative contracting, Somoza was able to profit from the devastation and tighten his control over the city\u2019s economy. This seemed to be the last straw for the FSLN. In the following years, sieges were initiated, hostages taken, assassinations were rife, prisoners were broken out of jail, threats were made and the country began to topple into revolution. In 1978, the leader of the opposition Pedro Joaqui\u0301n Chamorro Cardenal of the Democratic Union of Liberation, was assassinated triggering a general strike and bringing together moderates and the FSLN in a united front to oust Somoza. The FSLN offensive ended in 1979 with the ousting of Somoza, who was then assassinated in 1980.<\/p>\n<h2>Photographic witness<\/h2>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_98008&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98008 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-burning-car.jpg\" alt=\"Nicaragua Susan Meiselasb burning car\" width=\"1000\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-burning-car.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-burning-car.jpg?resize=300,197 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-burning-car.jpg?resize=610,400 610w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-burning-car.jpg?resize=900,590 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-burning-car.jpg?resize=562,369 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">A life less ordinary &#8211; a woman passes by the burning car of a Somoza informer in Managua.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>In the late 1970s, Meiselas arrived on the scene with her camera and was just in time to witness the dying throes of the Somoza dynasty and the Sandinista revolution that led to its downfall. Many of the images are incredible to behold and tell us much about the state of a nation as it undergoes radical shifts in its cultural and political landscape. One image in particular is notable, called \u2018Car of a Somoza informer burning in Managua\u2019 (see above). A car lies burning on its side in the middle of a road as a woman walks by going about her day, flinching her head a little at either the intense heat of the flaming vehicle or perhaps even at the presence of Meiselas\u2019s camera. It\u2019s an image that encapsulates something that can be found in a variety of photographic books about countries in turmoil. The citizens who live there can do nothing more than go about their everyday lives. Burning vehicles, bullet holes and corpses become part of the everyday landscape.<\/p>\n<p>This updated version of <em>Nicaragua<\/em> includes interviews with participants in the revolution, along with letters, poems and statistics. Excerpts from these interviews, gathered during Meiselas\u2019s return to Nicaragua in early 1981, accompany many of the plates in the book and offer so much more than a simple republication of images possibly could. What we have here is a book that deals in context and personal stories, by the very people who were involved and directly affected by the events. However, another thing this book has to offer is a really rather lovely thing.<\/p>\n<p>Aperture has included an augmented reality function (just hover your phone over the page) that brings a selection of images to life via clips from Meiselas\u2019s films <em>Pictures from a Revolution<\/em> (1991). In that film Meiselas returned to the scenes she originally photographed, tracking down subjects and interviewing them. Also featured are clips from <em>Reframing History<\/em> (2004), a documentation of her return in 2004 with 19 mural-sized images of her photographs from 1979, to collaborate with local communities and create sites for collective memory.<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_98010&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98010 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-street-fighter.jpg\" alt=\"Nicaragua Susan Meiselas Street Fighter\" width=\"1000\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-street-fighter.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-street-fighter.jpg?resize=300,204 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-street-fighter.jpg?resize=587,400 587w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-street-fighter.jpg?resize=900,613 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-Susan-Meiselas-street-fighter.jpg?resize=562,383 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">A street fighter, armed and waiting, is ready for action in the pressure cooker of Managua.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>These additions to the original offer a layered perspective on history. Images, text and video combine to create an approach to the work that gives context and a great lesson in the history of the country\u2019s tumultuous history. <em>Nicaragua<\/em> is a vital project in the pantheon of photojournalism. Cornell Capa would most definitely have approved.<\/p>\n<h2>SCORE: 5 out of 5<\/h2>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98006\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nicaragua-book-cover-small.jpg\" alt=\"Nicaragua book cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/>\n<p><strong>Published by<\/strong> Aperture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price<\/strong> \u00a335, 128 pages, hardback<\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN<\/strong> 978-1-59711-383-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this republished work by Susan Meiselas, a country in a state of transition comes under her sharp scrutiny. 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