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Yonkeros
In , Guatemalan photographer Jaime Permuth (born 1968) documents “The Iron Triangle”: Willets Point, a small and often overlooked enclave of New York City that is home to junkyards and scrap metal businesses. Permuth’s beautiful black-and-white photographs highlight local workers, and their tools and materials.
144 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2012
About the author
Francisco Goldman
25 books198 followersFrancisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and 'maestro', at Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), the journalism school for Latin-America created by Gabriel García Márquez. Goldman is also known as Francisco Goldman Molina, "Frank" and "Paco".
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father. His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his second, The Ordinary Seaman (1997), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He currently resides in Mexico City and Brooklyn, New York. He also teaches at Trinity College (Connecticut).
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He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father. His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his second, The Ordinary Seaman (1997), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He currently resides in Mexico City and Brooklyn, New York. He also teaches at Trinity College (Connecticut).
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May 6, 2020
When I bought this book online I had great expectations since I felt the very same emotions Permuth had when I walked Willets Point for the first time.
But I’m convinced YONKEROS doesn’t fully convey those emotions. Sometimes less is more: a few images do not stand at the same good level of the majority. Some others are very good, but surrounded by doubles or ok images. Pages editing is plain bad: almost all the double pages spread have the main subject right in the middle, hence cut by the fold; moreover, what’s the concept behind b&w / color disposition!?
3 stars and one is for the idea.
But I’m convinced YONKEROS doesn’t fully convey those emotions. Sometimes less is more: a few images do not stand at the same good level of the majority. Some others are very good, but surrounded by doubles or ok images. Pages editing is plain bad: almost all the double pages spread have the main subject right in the middle, hence cut by the fold; moreover, what’s the concept behind b&w / color disposition!?
3 stars and one is for the idea.
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