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Luis González Palma

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Palma during FotoArtFestival, Poland, 2011

Luis González Palma (1957) is a Guatemalan photographer. Much of his work "has revolved around the strange hybrids of race and culture that add up to Latin America."[1]

Life and work

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Luis González Palma, was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 1957. After training to be an architect[2] at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala,[3] he began a career in photography and video.[4]

His first individual exhibition, Autoconfesion, was in 1989 at the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, and had a breakthrough at the Houston FotoFest in 1992.[5][6] He was awarded the Gran Premio PHotoEspaña award in 1999, exhibited his work in the 49th and 51st Venice Biennale,[6] and contributed to the production of The Death and the Maiden in the Malmö Opera, 2008.[7]

Publications

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  • Luis González Palma. Fabrica.[7]
  • Il Silencio Dei Maya. Verona: Peliti, 1998.[7]
  • Luis González Palma: Poems of Sorrow. Santa Fe: Arena, 1999. With text by John Wood.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Hodgson, Francis (22 April 2018). "La Luz de la Mente, by Luis González Palma". Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  2. ^ "Aesthetica Magazine - Interview with Luis González Palma, Photographer, PHotoEspaña". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  3. ^ "Luis González Palma: Juan, c. 1998". Weisman Art Museum. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  4. ^ "Light and darkness: Luis Gonzáles Palma". v1.zonezero.com. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  5. ^ Communications, Emmis (March 1992). Texas Monthly. Emmis Communications.
  6. ^ a b "Exhibiciones". Luis Gonzales Palma (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  7. ^ a b c d "Luis González Palma". LensCulture. Retrieved 2020-06-28.

General references

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