Humanario

Alicia d'Amico & Sara Facio
Humanario

Photographs: Alicia d'Amico & Sara Facio

Text: Julio Cortazar

Publisher: La Azotea

76 pages

Pictures: 45

Year: 1976

Comments: Hardcover in its rare slipcase, 275 x 290 mm. First edition, 1976. Black & white photographs. Text in spanish. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Slipcase with little traces of foxing and a little bit sunburned. Very fresh and clean copy! Binding is fine. Just one little stain on the first pages. Reproductions very well preserved. In very good condition overall. Extremely Rare and Collectible. Included in The Latin American Photobook by Horacio Fernandez, p.121.

"Facio and D'Amico, who worked both collaboratively and independently, produced one of Latin America's early social documentaries in the book Humanario, an exposé of conditions in a state-run insane asylum. In a country which still identifies its culture as European, these women have played an important role in the development of contemporary Argentine photography and its promotion as a legitimate part of the art world." -Wendy Watriss, in Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America 1866-1994.

From Martin Parr and Gerry Badger: " D'Amico and Facio...emphasize the city's hustle and bustle, but it is couched in strident, jazzy, edgy terms. Energy rather than elegance is the keyword...they employ a mode of expression that looks more to the internal and the psychological, expressed by means of a rough, grainy, graphic expressionism."