Informazioni sul libro
A visual narrative of my father's tour of duty of Cyprus from 1969 - 1970, with extracts from a friend's letters to him.
The Tyrant of Louroujina is constructed from a personal archive of photographs taken by Lt. Michael Nestor on his first tour of duty with the United Nations in Cyprus from late 1969 to early 1970. Juxtaposed against the selected images are thoughts from letters of a close friend. In these letters inescapable perennial issues of racism, anti-Semitism, the legacy of war and the world’s great powers are touched on.
In 1969 Cyprus was inexorably sinking into deeper conflict and division. Even if the patrolled landscape seems superficially unaware, or indifferent, graffiti scrawled on a wall announces that ‘the Anglo-Turkish plan will fail’ and many of the photographed places would nominally vanish after 1974.
The Tyrant of Louroujina is constructed from a personal archive of photographs taken by Lt. Michael Nestor on his first tour of duty with the United Nations in Cyprus from late 1969 to early 1970. Juxtaposed against the selected images are thoughts from letters of a close friend. In these letters inescapable perennial issues of racism, anti-Semitism, the legacy of war and the world’s great powers are touched on.
In 1969 Cyprus was inexorably sinking into deeper conflict and division. Even if the patrolled landscape seems superficially unaware, or indifferent, graffiti scrawled on a wall announces that ‘the Anglo-Turkish plan will fail’ and many of the photographed places would nominally vanish after 1974.
Funzionalità e dettagli
- Categoria principale: Storia
- Categorie aggiuntive Libri d'arte e fotografia, Viaggi
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Formato del progetto: Verticale standard, 20×25 cm
N° di pagine: 50 - Data di pubblicazione: mag 22, 2018
- Lingua English
- Parole chiave landscape, photography, history, Cyprus, Israel
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Informazioni sull'autore
Steven Nestor
Dublin, Ireland
A Natural History of Destruction, Athens Photo Festival 2017 Conclusion of MA in Art, Research and Collaboration at IADT, 2017 Bellum et Pax, PhotoIreland 2017 MA ARC curatorial team involved with TalkingPIIGS under the direction of Campo15 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2016. The Irish artist represented and present was Fiona Marron with her 2013 project After Automation. Photography Plus Context, Photography in Academic Research, 2016. UCL Institute of Archaeology, London, 2016. Paper: ‘To a Presence of Absence: A Study of the Opera on the Ancient World by Herbert List and Joel Sternfeld via the writings of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida’. Read a conference review by Dr Deborah Schultz. Athens Photo Festival, 2016