Miembro fantasma / Rosalba Bustamante.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bustamante, Rosalba, photographer.

Contributor:

Fotografia (Publisher), publisher.

Hydra (Publisher), publisher.

Standardized Title:

Photographs. Selections

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic--21st century.

Photography, Artistic.

Artists' books--Mexico--21st century--Specimens.

Artists' books.

Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--Pictorial works.

Oaxaca (Mexico : State).

Genre:

Backless bindings (Binding)

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 21 x 23 cm.

Edition:

Primera edición.

Place of Publication:

Ciudad de Mexico : Hydra, 2022.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

During the transit for the construction of this book, I joined a journey through my life as a child and at the same time through that of my father, where similarities and radical ruptures appear. From a repressed childhood that could at a given moment be the cause of my decisions such as having chosen a medical specialty as bloody as Traumatology in which I was almost always in contact with blood and radical procedures such as amputations. Anecdotes emerged, both from my childhood and from my practice as a Medical Specialist, which led me to search for archive images. In addition, throughout the photobook, solarigraphies (A photographic practice based on the observation of the path that the sun makes in the sky and its effect on the landscape) are intertwined, an important part of a stage of my work, where for eighteen months I placed 32 pinhole cameras on the roofs of houses in the city of Oaxaca, which recorded both the path of the sun, and the great earthquake of 2017 that destroyed much of the state. These abstract images of intense colors, reflect a deeply difficult stage of my life, after leaving medicine, where I immersed myself in the tunnels of a strong depression and anxiety. In the story I make an analogy between phantom limb syndrome -in which a patient, after having been amputated, continues to feel the already nonexistent limb- with the persistent presence of my father long after he died. Separation, mutilation, wounds, ruptures, amputations, words that are the common thread of the photobook, both in history and in its physical structure. The book was produced within the framework of the Hydra, Incubadora de Fotolibros, 2019.

Notes:

Exposed stitched binding (Japanese bookbinding) on both sides.

Bound with saddle stich binding.

Print run.

Books signed and dated by the author.

The covers are closed, to open user must tear off the perforations line in the middle of the front cover that will produce two books, that share the verso cover and are placed facing each other.

"Iniciar aqui. Desprender y dar la vuelta" --Covers.

Edition includes 2 color postcards, one business card and one sticker.

OCLC:

1355691421