Pieter Hugo: La Cucaracha - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Themes of mortality and ordinariness in modern-day Mexico</strong></p><p>This is Cape Town-based photographer Pieter Hugo's (born 1976) homage to Mexico, in portraits, landscapes and still-life vignettes with bright shades of pink, blue and green.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Pieter Hugo's big, bold book on sex and death in Mexico is ancient and modern at once. La Cucaracha merges myth, history, and everyday reality, drawing symbols from Catholic iconography, Biblical stories, Mexican folklore, Aztec antiquity, Renaissance painting and cartel crime scenes. Hugo's electric memento mori celebrates Mexico's ability to grapple with ambiguity, and to endure.--Shannon Taggart "Photo Eye"<br><br>[It] was its people's day-to-day understanding of life's fragility that inspired his new photography series, "La Cucaracha. Hugo named the series after the popular folk song about an injured cockroach whose lyrics are often rewritten in Mexico as political satire.--Osman Can Yerebakan "New York Times"<br><br>This is a series about sex, and death--interpreted explicitly: naked flesh and blood, burning and cut-up corpses, fallen fruit and blooming flowers. Nature and humanity perform a strange and beguiling dance across the pages--La Cucaracha playing faintly in the background.--Charlotte Jansen "Elephant"<br>
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