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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark F004196 FOAM I MON MONTELEONE.D 2013
TitleSpasibo.???????
Photographer
Iconographic keywords
Place of publicationHeidelberg
PublisherKehrer
Year of publication2013
Pagination164
Illustrationsb&w
Dimensions28,5x24,5x2cm
MaterialMonografie
Document TypeBook
ISBN9783868284669
Bibliographic Noteshc
Subjectdocumentaire fotografie, reportage, Stedenboek
Persons keywordCarmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
Abstract
"Davide Monteleone is well acquainted with the complex, tormented life of ordinary Chechens. He has crisscrossed the country, stopping in cities and villages, mountains and forests. This book contains neither majestic city- or country-scapes nor blood-spattered depictions of violence. Monteleone rather shows us the otherwise invisible: the stifling atmosphere, the regnant helplessness and fear, the young women resigned to their fate, and the elderly, whose traditional authority has diminished in the face of Kadyrov s brutes. But Monteleone s photographs also depict hope. Chechens are a mountain people who have endured wars and other atrocities for centuries, including the collective deportation to the arid Kazakh steppes and to Siberia under Stalin in 1944. They know how to resist, and they know when to wait. Strong by nature, they are able to laugh even amidst adversity, and they sustain a birthrate that repopulates the land and replaces the dead. They know perfectly well that this dictatorial regime will fall sooner or later, as it has in other Muslim countries.''
| Copy number | F004196 |
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| Shelf mark | I MON MONTELEONE.D 2013 |