The Land That Remains - Federico Busonero. Photographs from Palestine

Commissioned by UNESCO, Federico Busonero undertook three extensive journeys through the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territory between 2008 and 2009. Using a traditional film camera and unmistakably, his heart, he created pictures that illustrate culturally important, rarely seen places in the topography of the Mashriq-the Arabic "places of sunrise" to the east of the Nile-villages and cities with extraordinary heritage, pastoral rolling hills and ancient olive groves, fertile wadi ecologies, sacred desert cemeteries, and vanishing millennial archaeological sites. A critical yet neutral gaze sheds light on the impending loss of Palestine's cultural legacy with images of today's broken history being occupied forcefully by another's reality, reflecting visions of hope sacrificed in the land that remains.

Summary

Commissioned by UNESCO, Federico Busonero undertook three extensive journeys through the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territory between 2008 and 2009. Using a traditional film camera and unmistakably, his heart, he created pictures that illustrate culturally important, rarely seen places in the topography of the Mashriq—the Arabic “places of sunrise” to the east of the Nile—villages and cities with extraordinary heritage, pastoral rolling hills and ancient olive groves, fertile wadi ecologies, sacred desert cemeteries, and vanishing millennial archaeological sites. A critical yet neutral gaze sheds light on the impending loss of Palestine’s cultural legacy with images of today’s broken history being occupied forcefully by another’s reality, reflecting visions of hope sacrificed in the land that remains.

Product details

• Authors: Federic Busonero, Federico Busonero, Giovann Fontana Antonelli, Giovanni Fontana Antonelli, San, Ann Sanciaud Azanza, Anne Sanciaud Azanza
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2016
• EAN: 9783775741217
• ISBN: 978-3-7757-4121-7
• No. of pages: 171
• Dimensions: 297 mm x 322 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 1817 g
• Illustrations: 79 Abb.
• Series: Fotografie, Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Photo art; Fotografie, Kultur, Fotografie, Computerkunst, Alte Geschichte, Archäologie, auseinandersetzen, Hebron, Federico Busonero