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| the Dreamer just come 1968 to sleep, only come to dream: not true, not true that we have to live on earth. Nahuatl Poetry Photo: Mario Mutschlechner |
was paradise. Was forty-two years before now. A young photographer arrives from his native Germany. After a long journey through the Caribbean into Mexico. Merida comes to Oaxaca. And in Oaxaca called the Mixteca Baja, back up where the Sierra Madre del Sur and began the short coastal plain facing the Pacific. The photographer is Mario Mutschlechner and were the last years of the sixties of the twentieth century. The time of the hippies of psychedelic mushroom of Huautla of much that was transforming the region, Oaxaca, Mexico, the world.
Thirty-five landscape photography, objects, but especially women in the Mixteca Baja in Oaxaca. Their bare backs bring us closer to what it was paradise. A pair of prying eyes behind the camera. The technology allowed to take pictures, they were kept for four decades, and now technology has allowed their reproduction in a beautiful book.
accompany the photographs, reproductions of parts of manuscripts and poems, some of them from the Nahuatl culture. I quote one:
Sweet, tasty woman
Precious popcorn flower.
The book contains a foreword by Patrick Johansson, a photographer Mutschlechner introduction, an interview with the photographer's copyright by Jesús Hernández Garibay and gratitude.
A book to watch. And that was closer to paradise.
Title: Ñundeui, at the foot of the sky
Author: Mario Mutschlechner
Publisher: National Council for Culture and the Arts
Edition: First, October 2008.
Part of the book can be found at:
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