Publisher's Synopsis
Hans Namuth visited Todos Santos, a small village in northern Guatemala, in the late 1940s. His fascination with the isolated mountain community led him to return in 1987 and continue his photographic documentation of the Maya culture which had survived despite the influence of western civilization and the civil war in Guatemala, during which political violence to control insurrection has been turned against the civilian population.;Namuth's photographs of the villagers from the two periods evoke the day-to-day lives of the inhabitants and their tenacious hold on their cultural heritage. The bloody history of the Mayas and the hardships of everyday life in a primitive community are easily discernible in the faces of the Indians he portrays.;"Los Todos Santeros" presents a selection of images capturing a world of poverty and great hardship which has remained cut off from westerners until remarkably recently.
