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| Look Close, See Far: A Cultural Portrait of the Maya | 
 enlarge | Authors: Allen J. Christenson, Shoshaunna Parks, Patricia A. Mcanany
Creator: Bruce T. Martin
Publisher: George Braziller
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 514223
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 9.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0807615897
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.81
EAN: 9780807615898
ASIN: 0807615897
Publication Date: November 15, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
Photographs: Poetry Without Words July 14, 2008
Photographs: Poetry Without Words
reviewed by MariJo Moore (www.marijomoore.com)
Graphic, explicit, vivid, stark - which of these adjectives describes best the photographs in the book Look Close, See Far: A Cultural Portrait of the Maya by Bruce T. Martin? Perhaps real is the suitable description. But can photographs be real? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Feasibly it would be more apropos to define this photographer as a realist, who, in 1987, began a twenty-year journey through his own misconceptions concerning an indigenous people of whom he was only superficially aware.
In a recent interview, Martin revealed the following:
"I stepped into the Maya world, and there was revealed the long, beautiful, rich, complicated, history and culture that they hold. One of my favorite aspects of this project was going there and the feeling of being overwhelmed by the Maya people and their story. I can't put it in words but I have tried to put it into my photography. That awakening and what I have learned in this project has changed me and helped me to see life in a different light. It also made me realize how little of this world I really know or understand, but at the same time inspires me to continue on and learn more.''
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