Oaxaca Stories in Cloth
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (696 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0983886083 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I love seeing our world through your eyes" according to Patrice Perillie. What can I say about a book that is so near and dear to my own heart except Gracias Compañero! I love seeing our world through your eyes! Thank you for capturing these dyeing and dying traditions before they disappearThese weavers and spinners and dyers and embroiderers and storytellers will live on forever in. For the love of Oaxacan traditions Chata Eric Mindling, originally from the US, has made his home in Oaxaca for decades and as a tour guide has explored many corners of this vast Mexican state. As a weaver I expected to love the photos of the traditional clothing and I did. He has taken powerful photos of people in settings of their choice and the backgroun. Jeanette Heard said Fantastic book about traditional Oaxacan clothing. I was thrilled to finally see this book. I had been following Eric Mindling's posts on facebook as he traveled through Oaxaca and photographed traditional clothing for a couple of years. It was worth the wait. The photographs are fantastic and evoke the people and land as well as documenting the clothing traditions.
A glorious book." —Wade Davis, author, photographer, National Geographic Explorer, Professor of Anthropology at University of British Columbia. "An exquisitely beautiful account of a people and a textile tradition that is the perfect expression of their past, the embodiment of their present, and the symbol of their cultural survival as they chart their way forward
Oaxaca Stories in Cloth includes more than 175 sensitive, intimate, full-color portraits of traditional people of the Oaxacan hinterlands who continue to wrap themselves in the clothing that expresses their ancient, living culture. This book offers a window into a vanishing culture where few people have the opportunity to go.. Eric Mindling captures this vanishing world with artistry and respect, and just in the nick of time