Recuerdos De Filipinas (A tool for the study & understanding of the ways & customs of these islands with 37 phototypies taken & copied from real life., Album -- Libro)
By Flix Laureano.
Description
"What a delightful window this is to a vanised world of the Spanish Philippines on the eve of its revoulutionary overthrow. The pioneer photographer marries his skills to an extraordinary narrative more precious than the photos themselves. For Laureano, one photo becomes the pretext for an extraordinary jumble of ideas and information, sometimes lyrical praise of a rural idyll, more often a catalogue of useful information, reading almost like a dictionary of vernacular terms. He offers us a foretaste of what the ethnographic film would seek to do at a much later stage, to capture t...
ISBN(s)
9711902303, 9789711902308
