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Informationen zum Autor Paula Allen is a documentary photographer whose work spans more than three decades. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Paris Match, The London Independent Magazine, Art in America, Mother Jones, Oprah, People, Marie Claire, Glamour, and others. Her work on behalf of human rights organisations has taken her to Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and post-Katrina New Orleans. Klappentext On September 11, 1973, with the backing of the U.S. government, General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government of Chilean president Salvador Allende. In the weeks that followed, thousands of ordinary citizens began to vanish from the cities and villages of Chile, taken from their homes, workplaces, and universities. The “disappeared” included twenty-six men from the northern town of Calama. For seventeen years their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters searched the Atacama desert, the driest place on each, digging with shovels under a scorching sun, until they finally found the mass grave containing the crushed remains of their loved ones. Paula Allen documented their quest, and her mesmerising black and white photographs capture the courageous story of the women of Calama. Flowers in the Desert puts a human face on this dark period of history that affected not only Chile but much of Latin America and the world. Zusammenfassung An account! including stunning photographs! of the search by some of the women of the town of Calama! Chile! for the remains of their loved ones who were murdered and "disappeared" by the Pinochet regime.
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Paula Allen is a documentary photographer whose work spans more than three decades. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including
The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Paris Match, The London Independent Magazine, Art in America, Mother Jones, Oprah, People, Marie Claire, Glamour, and others. Her work on behalf of human rights organisations has taken her to Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and post-Katrina New Orleans.
