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9781915423078 Academic Inspection Copy

Haiti

  • ISBN-13: 9781915423078
  • Publisher: GOST BOOKS
    Imprint: GOST BOOKS
  • By Bruce Gilden, Foreword by Louis-Philippe Dalembert
  • Price: AUD $124.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 04/02/2024
  • Format: Hardback (270.00mm X 225.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photographic reportage [AJCR]
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Bruce Gilden first journeyed to Haiti in 1984 to document the famous Mardi Gras festivities in Port au Prince. Fascinated by the country, he returned many times and his landmark monograph Haiti, a culmination of these photographs made during this period was first published in 1996. Gilden has continued to return to Haiti, and this new expanded edition of his book includes 40 new images made up until 2010, completing Gilden's vision of the country. Though only an hour's flight from Miami and the US mainland, Haiti remains the least-developed country in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti was freed from French colonial control and slavery in the early 19th Century but this independent came at a cost of an 'independence debt' which was not paid off until 1947. In addition, chronic instability, dictatorships and natural disasters in recent decades have left it as the poorest nation in the Americas.
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