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La Coraza
Hand-pulled photogravure
6 ¾ x 6 ½ inches (17 x 16.5 cm) image
20 3/8 x 16 3/8 inches (51.8 x 41.6 cm) frame
Luis González Palma is perhaps the most successful Latin American photographer today. The subject matter of his most
well-known work is the indigenous and mestizo populations of his native Guatemala. An architect by training and married to a dancer,
González Palma very early in his carrier found his calling in constructed and staged photography. Many of his works are
collages, others are straight prints, while still others are assemblages of objects. Many of his images are portraits of indigenous
men, women and children dressed up emblematically to incarnate a character of mythology and/or popular culture. Often, his black
and white photographs are painted over in a sepia medium, leaving only the whites of the eyes of his sitters unpainted. This type
of rendering produces an almost hypnotic effect in the viewer as he/she confronts González Palma's characters.
Born in 1957 in Guatemala. Lives and works in Guatemala City. Studied architecture and cinematography at the Universidad de San
Carlos de Guatemala.
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