Guatemala Eterna Primavera Eterna Tirana Author:Jean-Marie Simon Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna Tiranía (2010) is the Spanish-language edition of Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny, which was originally published in 1988 and sold 20,000 copies. The book is a unique melding of war photography and deeply-informed historical text by the only photojournalist, Guatemalan or foreign, who covered the 19... more »80s Guatemalan civil war in its entirety. It is a singular photo book and a singular narrative history.
This Spanish-language edition contains 150 digitized photographs, including 50 new images; a meticulously edited text; and prologues by Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute, and Juan Luis Font, managing editor of elPeriódico. Each of the book's six chapters depicts the height of Guatemala's civil war, from 1980 to 1988, which the author covered in her capacity as a photographer for Time, The New Republic and Geo, and as a human rights consultant to Human Rights Watch/NY.
Author Graham Greene called Simon's photographs "magnificent"; author Francisco Goldman (The Long Night of White Chickens, The Art of Political Murder) defined Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna Tiranía as "heroic and compassionate."
Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna Tiranía has been nominated for the 2010 Wola-Duke Book Award.
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