Home Altars of Mexico
London: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Softcover. Pink, yellow & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 138 pp., 59 color plates, sundry other illus. VG. Item #138597
ISBN: 0500280193
"For over a decade, Dana Salvo has travelled throughout the central highlands and southern states of Mexico with artist Dawn Southworth and their young children, Jahna and Simone. ... Welcomed into the houses of these rural peoples, as few outsiders have been before, Salvo was permitted the rare privilege of photographing their home environments. Central to each interior is the altarcito, or home altar, which creates a focus of intricate and sincere spirituality. These dazzling large-format colour photographs depict the altars in all their glory and meticulous detail." (flap) With essays by Ramon A. Gutierrez, Salvatore Scalora, William H. Beezlery, and Amalia Mesa-Bains. Inspirational.
Price: $29.97