A new exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York surveys photographic movements in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.
One of the images shows the word "Evaporados" - evaporated - pasted in huge letters on an expressway
wall in Lima, Peru. As the Lens blog writes, the artist Eduardo Villanes put them there in 1995,
to protest the abduction and murder of nine university students and a
professor by a military death squad (this is referring to the La Cantuta case), as well as the subsequent amnesty
granted to the killers by Alberto Fujimori.
The exhibition, curated by Alexis Fabry and María Wills, runs until 7 September 2014.
Tales of Many Cities (The Wall Street Journal)
Latin America’s Mutating Cities, in Photographs (Lens blog, NY Times)
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