CAMARISTAS
Mayan Photographers of Chiapas
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The relationship between the Indian and photography does not cease to be an odd combination. Condemned as they are to a world of technological limits and more important, to scarce commodities, the Indian has historically been a passive model of the photographic camera. Therefore the photographs which appear in this book are pleasantly striking, and yet intriguing. Camaristas will introduce you to many images in which Indians of different ethnic groups, customs and traditions capture, camera in hand, a close reality of their lives and in so doing, allow us in turn to look briefly through their eyes.
Camaristas features the photographs of Mayan photographers Maruch Santiz Gomez, Refugia Guzman Perez, Genaro Santis Gomez, Facundo Guzman Perez, Emiliano Guzman Meza, Juana Lopez Diaz, Juana Lopez Lopez, and Pedro Hernandez Guzman. Texts by Patricia Gola, Robert M. Laughlin, and Gabriela Vargas