El Salvador

Photographs document the civil war in El Salvador and its aftermath

Arts & Photography

Towell, Larry

Photography & Video

W.W.Norton & Co

A deeply compelling look at a tumultuous country, Larry Towell's photographs are at once powerful and compassionate, revealing a country of violence, heartbreak, strength, and dignity. Magnum photographer Larry Towell first traveled to El Salvador in 1986 as a member of a human rights delegation. Since the beginning of the civil war in 1979, 50,000 people had been killed, 25 percent of the population were refugees, and death squads terrorized the nation. The war ended in the early 1990s and Towell had thoroughly documented both the war and its aftermath. Towell is perhaps one of the finest photojournalists since Cartier-Bresson. In these haunting photographs, we see a world in which everyone becomes a combatant and every place a war zone. Yet amid the brutality and death there is a harsh beauty people grieve and move on; peasant women wash clothes and nurse infants under the eyes of soldiers; children with hopeful faces forage the dumpsites for food. 62 duotones

W.W.Norton&Company

Burning cadillacs

Black Moss Press

Since 1966, 40,000 people have vanished into the bowels of the state security apparatus in Guatemala. Forty-six percent of all "disappearances" in Latin America occur here, where the method of eliminating persons, leaving no trace behind, was invented and refined. To live with the reality of "disappeared" loved ones is to live constantly in the permanent presence of an absence. This collection is based on the words of the relatives of the "disappeared" who, in spite of continued harassment and death threats, continue to demand explanations and justice.Larry Towell travelled to Guatemala in 1988 and 1989 to record the people's stories. He gives the voices a chance to be heard through interviews with GAM (Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo, or Mutual Support Group), an organization of family members of the "disappeared". The group was formed in June of 1984 when five persons who had repeatedly met while searching for the loved ones decided to band together in that search.Although GAM is not the only internal organization pressuring the government, it was the first to do so, and to endure. Although a venue of direct dialogue for general social reform began to open between the government and the social sector after the 1993 naming of Ramiro de Leon Carpio, the former human-rights ombudsman, as president, the issue of the "disappeared" remains unresolved, and not a single high-ranking military officer has been brought to trial.

House on Ninth Street: Interviews and Photographs from Guatemala

Cormorant Books

Somoza's Last Stand (Testimonies from Nicaragua)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Red Sea Pr

Somoza's Last Stand: Testimonies from Nicaragua

With extensive biographical text and images, The World From My Front Porch is a book about Larry Towell's home, its history and the world seen from its viewpoint. It is both a rage against injustice and the romantic expression of an ideal worth fighting for. Central is Towell's photo-essay about the Arcadian family life of the farm that he sharecrops in Ontario, photographed over a period of 20 years. The book also features the personal story of Towell's family and farm, illustrated with archival photographs and historical artifacts, and, in the last section, the story of Towell's journeys beyond his front porch--as photographer, poet and storyteller--into the lives and struggles of people dispossessed by conflict. This section is illustrated with songs, testimonies, tear sheets and artifacts collected from war zones.

Larry Towell: The World From My Front Porch

Chris Boot

The History War is a book of photographs, collages andephemera beginning with a timeline that starts in the 5thcentury.It's six chapters document the Maidan uprising, theChernobyl wasteland where Soviets began to lose faith inthe system, the eastern Donbass of neglected coal minersand de-occupied ruins, an embed with the Ukrainian Army,the separatists, and finally the Russian invasion of Ukraineincluding crimes against humanity in Bucha. This project is an important testament to a politicalcrisis that will shape international relations and reverberatethrough the decades to come. It also challenges a worldoversaturated with news pictures.

The History War

GOST Books

Larry Towell first encountered the Mennonites near his home in Ontario, Canada, and his friendship with them gained him unique access to their communities.&nbsp; Rather than compromise their way of life, Mennonites have continually been forced to migrate around the world to maintain their freedom to live as they choose. Towell photographed Mennonites in Canada and Mexico for over ten years, and his own texts tell in detail his experiences with their communities: the harshness and poverty of their rural existence, the disciplines and contradictions of their religion, their hunger for land and work, and the constant struggle to keep the modern world at bay. This second edition, re-edited and re-sequenced includes forty new images from the photographer's archive.

The Mennonites

Individual Artists

No man's land

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