Title: Los Restos de la Revolucion
Photographer/s: Kevin Kunishi
Date of publication: 2011
Place of publication: San Francisco
Dimensions: 8.5×11″
Edition: 1 (Artist Proof)
Type of binding: Softcover, 5-point stitch
Number of pages: 24
Type of paper: 100# Book, Silk
Number of pictures: 10
Type of printing: Digital Color Press
Printer: Owl & Tiger Books
Publisher: Owl & Tiger Books
Designer: David Bornfriend
Editor: Patrick Aguilar
Language: English
Category: Artist Book
Price: $20.00
Summary: In 1979, after over a decade of struggle, the socialist Sandinista movement in Nicaragua overthrew the famously corrupt dictator, Anastasio Somoza. The Sandinistas quickly began the work of applying their social and ideological values in the hopes of creating a better Nicaragua.
Unfortunately, the United States government had other plans. In the cold war environment of the 1980s, the prospect of a socialist/communist government gaining a foothold in Central America was deemed unacceptable. The CIA began financing, arming and training a clandestine rebel insurgency to destabilize the government.
These anti-Sandinista guerrillas became known as the contras. Between 1980 and 1990, Nicaragua would become the battleground of sharply conflicting political ideologies; the promise of a bright future was lost as the nation descended into civil war.
Although these two sides held polarized political philosophies, both in their foundation and practice, their survivors are united by the burden of a war-torn history.
As political ideology evolves, dilutes, or disappears; the horrors of war endure.
This series consists of portraits of Sandinistas and their opposing Contra veterans, as well as artifacts and landscapes significant to that volatile era. Excerpts from extensive interviews accompany the images.
Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 06/11/1975 Oakland,CA
Website: www.kevinkunishi.com
Book link: www.owlandtiger.com
Donated by: Kevin Kunishi, Owl & Tiger Books
iPL Notes: Received at Review Santa Fe 2011.
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