We Are All Immigrants

Nuevo New York

Photographs by Hans Neumann & Interviews by Gabriel Rivera-Barraza

Published by Damiani.
By Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas.

Nuevo New York is a collection of portraits and interviews with influential Latin Americans who came to New York City to pursue their ambitions. The portraits are born out of a collaboration between two authors who made the journey from Latin America to New York themselves--photographer Hans Neumann (born in Peru), and fashion publicist Gabriel Rivera-Barraza (born in Mexico). Each figure included in Nuevo New York is an important player in the fields of fashion and the arts, having lived in New York City for at least five years and having gained recognition for their work. Neumann and Rivera-Barraza trace how their subjects came to be who they are today, and what role the city of New York has played in their trajectories. Interviewees include Andres Serrano, Candy Pratts Price, Carolina Herrera, Enrique Norten, Estrellita Brodsky, Francisco Costa, José Parlá, Lazaro Hernandez, María Cornejo and Nina Garcia.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / 68 color / 30 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/27/2016
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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 133   

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Dulce Pinzón: The Real Story of the Superheroes

Published by RM.

In our thirst for Hollywood action heroes and caped crusaders, we sometimes overlook the everyday heroes in our midst. U.S.–based Mexican photographer Dulce Pinzón (born 1974) pays homage to Mexican immigrant workers in New York, heroes who sacrifice extraordinary hours in extreme conditions for very low wages, all for the sake of families and communities in Mexico who rely on them to survive. The Mexican economy has quietly become dependent on the money sent from workers in the United States, while the U.S. economy has quietly become dependent on the labor of Mexican immigrants. These color photographs present these immigrants in their work environment, but dressed in the costumes of popular American and Mexican superheroes. Short texts present the worker’s “secret identity,” their hometown and the amount of money they send to their families each week.

PUBLISHER
RM

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10.5 x 10.75 in. / 52 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/31/2012
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Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 88   

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ISBN 9788415118244 TRADE
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Phil Collins: Soy Mi Madre

Published by Aspen Art Press.
Text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins' film Soy Mi Madre examines the immigrant populations of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of which hail from northwestern Mexico. The region relies heavily on service and maintenance work provided largely through this population, who often commute to work in Aspen. Loosely inspired by Jean Genet's The Maids--a seminal example of Theatre of the Absurd that renders surreal the intricate power dynamics that exist between people of divergent socioeconomic groups and exploits the volatility of social identity--Soy Mi Madre portrays the social realities of this region through the melodramatic lens of the telenovela. Reproduced in this volume through a generous selection of stills, the film uses popular Mexican television actors and crew, including Patricia Reyes Spindola, Zaide Silvia Guitérrez, Veronica Langer and Salvador Parra, as well as members of the transsexual prostitute community of Mexico City.

PUBLISHER
Aspen Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 9 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/30/2010
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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 94   

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ISBN 9780934324465 TRADE
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JR & Art Spiegelman: The Ghosts of Ellis Island

Published by Damiani.

In August 2014 the French artist JR received an unprecedented invitation to work in the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, a building on the south side of the island that has been abandoned and closed to visitors since 1954. About ten percent of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island, having been deemed not healthy enough to enter the United States, spent some time in the hospital. For Unframed—Ellis Island, documented in The Ghosts of Ellis Island, JR chose about 20 archival photographs of the hospital's patients and staff and wheat-pasted these images around the abandoned building, creating haunting scenes that bring the history of these rooms back to life: a family looking out at the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, a small boy lying on an empty bed frame, patients staring out of the caged "psychopathic" ward. The work, which is accessible by guided tour, will remain up "until it decides to disappear." Along with images of JR's photographic interventions in the hospital, this publication includes new illustrations by legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who collaborated with JR on illustrated narratives about Ellis Island's immigrants.
JR (born 1983) is best known for his monumental, wheat-pasted street portraiture projects. His ongoing project Unframed involves installing archival images and images from anonymous photographers in new contexts. JR has carried out Unframed projects in Marseille, São Paulo, Vevey, Atlanta, Baden Baden and Washington, DC. In 2014 he worked inside the theater of the NYC Ballet creating a 6,500-square-foot composite image of NYCB dancers depicted nearly life-size that, when seen from above, forms a giant eye. JR won the TED Prize for 2011.
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor and comics advocate based in New York City, best known for his graphic novel Maus (1991). His work as coeditor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker where he made several high-profile and sometimes controversial covers.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 112 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/26/2015
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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 63   

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ISBN 9788862083959 TRADE
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José Parlá: Roots

Published by Damiani.

In Roots, José Parlá (born 1973) explores the place of his experiences and travels in the development of his work.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 96 pgs / 101 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/26/2017
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 141   

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ISBN 9788862085632 TRADE
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I Had Nowhere to Go

Published by Spector Books.
By Jonas Mekas.

"Jonas Mekas' diaries have an aching honesty, puckish humor and quiet nobility of character. Many readers curious about the early years of this seminal avant-garde filmmaker will discover here a much more universal story: that of the emigrant who can never go back, and whose solitariness in the New World is emblematic of the human condition." -Phillip Lopate

"I was enormously moved by it." -Allen Ginsberg

PUBLISHER
Spector Books

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 480 pgs / 37 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/22/2017
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 71   

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ISBN 9783959051460 TRADE
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Mauricio Palos: My Perro Rano

Published by RM.

Mexican photographer Mauricio Palos (born 1981) is no stranger to the whims and prejudices of immigration officials: "I was deported from London the first time I attempted to enter the United Kingdom," he records in My Perro Rano; "I was refused entry because they suspected I was going there to work." Here, Palos photographs the desperate hinterland that is the U.S.-Mexico border.

PUBLISHER
RM

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 112 pgs / 105 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/30/2011
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Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 165   

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ISBN 9788492480944 TRADE
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Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles

Published by Editions Xavier Barral.
Edited by Clément Chéroux. Text by Michel Frizot.

"Koudelka's unsentimental, stark, brooding, intensely human imagery reflects his own spirit, the very essence of an exile who is at home wherever his wandering body finds haven in the night."–Cornell Capa

PUBLISHER
Editions Xavier Barral

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 45 color / 89 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/25/2017
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 44   

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ISBN 9782365111362 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CAD $90.00

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