Luis González Palma

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]

Palma during FotoArtFestival, Poland, 2011

Life and work

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. He was awarded the Gran Premio PHotoEspaña award in 1999, exhibited his work in the 49th and 51st Venice Biennale, and contributed to the production of The Death and the Maiden in the Malmö Opera, 2008.[5]

Publications

  • Luis González Palma. Fabrica.[5]
  • Il Silencio Dei Maya. Verona: Peliti, 1998.[5]
  • Luis González Palma: Poems of Sorrow. Sante Fe: Arena, 1999. With text by John Wood.[5]

References

  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. "Luis González Palma". LensCulture. Retrieved 2020-06-28.

General references

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