The Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC is hosting until the 25th of November 2007 an exhibition presenting the image of Guatemala in photographs made in 185 0 -2006, taken from the from the CIRMA collection. It is an unique and impressive presentation of how the photographic art and through it the general image of Guatemala has developed, since the 1850's. The curators have chosen the best works in the collection, signed by some of the most tallented photographers in the country. These compositions not only catch on paper people, events, places and feelings, but also relate to the national and international ideas and representations of those times. The photographs come from the CIRMA Archive, whose main purpose in the salvation and preservation of visual history of Guatemala.
2007-10-04
