About the Book
A journey of self-discovery, ADÁL's foto-narrative styled photo book documents his return to Puerto Rico after 40 years of living and working in the diaspora to documents his family's celebration of the Day of the Three Kings/Dia de los Reyes a 200 year tradition initiated by his great great grandfather.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 98 - Publish Date: Feb 16, 2014
- Language Undetermined
- Keywords three kings days, dia de los reyes, puerto rico, adal maldonado, spanish, english, photo-narrative
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About the Creator
ADÁL
San Juan, Puerto Rico
As have many other photographers of his generation - most notably Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Lucas Samaras - and due to his complex view of double identity, Adál has systematically explored identity issues to their ultimate consequences. From suggestive, “surreal” photographic collages in the early 1970s, to the ironic concreteness of his Auto-Portraits series, and, finally, to the creation of an ethereal, ubiquitous country where he and his Out of Focus Nuyoricans colleagues live, Adál has collapsed self-portraiture’s allegedly self-referential quality. Indeed, a great deal of his work’s satiric trademark arises from the constant mockery of the possibility of ever achieving an ultimate, definitive picture of one’s self.