Oaxaca: The Spirit of Mexico FROM THE PUBLISHER
Each year, a quarter million Americans visit the Mexican state of Oaxaca,an ancient land where indigenous, pre-Columbian, and colonial worlds exist side by side. Photographer Judith Haden offers a pictorial love letter to Oaxaca, illuminating its everyday life in supersaturated blues, dazzling yellows, and pinks so hot they vibrate on the page.
Compelling portraits of market vendors, folk art and artists, fiestas, and historic sites are matched by insightful prose. More than a dozen essays explore the street markets, religious festivals, artes populares, music, architecture, gastronomy, history, and language, tracing the palpable features of the faces of Oaxaca.
With more than two hundred breathtaking color photographs, this volume captures the spirit and traditions of a valley whose dynamic culture, hospitable people, and rugged beauty have bewitched travelers since the time of Cortez.
Author Biography: Oaxaca has been Judith Haden's photographic passion for five years. Fluent in Mexico's language and culture since her Peace Corps training there in the late 1960s, she divides her time between Central America and Seattle, where she has a studio and owns Casita, a store that sells the work of Mexican folk artists.
FROM THE CRITICS
New York Post
The sumptuous tome is a visual celebration of this remarkable region, where indigenous, pre-Columbian and Colonial influences converge.
Booknews
Photographer Haden presents 200-plus color photographs that display this unique region, a UNESCO World Heritage site where centuries-old dialects, folk arts, religious customs, and the native cultures of the Mexican peoples survive and flourish. Her portraits of outdoor markets, vendors, folk art and artists, historic sites, details of buildings, and the Day of the Dead holiday are accompanied by about a dozen essays by journalist Matthew Jaffee. Oversize: 11.25x9.5. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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