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BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 5.25 x 4.75 in. / 104 pgs / 120 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2013
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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 99

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ISBN 9788415118558 TRADE
List Price: $25.00 CDN $34.50

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“Contingent on their historical time, the walking portraits of Everything Passes will never cease to reveal the period stretching from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s; a few blocks of a street that is still famous today—the Calle de Junin; a city of eternal springtime—Medellin, Colombia; and the faces of passerby who can still be named and recognized by a small number of people.” -Alfonso Morales

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Everything Passes

Text by Alfonso Morales.

The Calle Junín is one of the best-known thoroughfares in Medellín, Colombia. From the 1950s through the end of the 1970s, street photographers known as fotocineros would photograph passersby on the Calle Junín and offer their images for sale. Everything Passes lovingly compiles these nostalgia-laden documents, which--as the title implies--convey not only the everyday life of bygone eras (along with the clothing, cars, buildings, advertisements, shops and display windows of the time), but also conjure the powerful sense of ephemerality and mortality that inheres in the casualness of both the images and the act of walking. Some 400 anonymous photographs were collected to make this volume, over a four-year period. Charmingly designed with a stamped cloth cover featuring a pedestrian in silhouette, the publication includes a meditation on the history of the Calle Junín that accompanies the photographs throughout.