So That All Shall Know / Para Que Todos Lo Sepan: Photographs by Daniel Hernandez-Salazar / Fotografías por Daniel Hernandez-Salazar (Spanish Edition)

"Years
pass. They pile up like pages in a book. Everything goes unpunished. I have to
scream." --Daniel Hernández-Salazar.

How does an
artist respond to the horrors of war and the genocide of his or her people? Can
art play a role in the fight for justice? These are key questions for
understanding the work of Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernández-Salazar.
Since the 1980s, Hernández-Salazar has created both documentary and aesthetic
works that confront the state-sponsored terrorism and mass killings of
Guatemala's long civil war (1962-1996).

His
photographic polyptych (4-panel image) "Clarification" became the
icon for the Recovery of Historical Memory project of the Archbishopric of
Guatemala, as well as a rallying symbol for Guatemalans. Broadening his crusade
for justice in the twenty-first century, Hernández-Salazar is now also using
the shouting angel of his polyptych (entitled "So That All Shall
Know") to challenge the forgetting and/or erasure of painful history in
many parts of the world, including Mexico, Japan, the United States, Canada,
and Argentina.

“So That
All Shall Know” is a powerful, comprehensive overview of the work of Daniel Hernández-Salazar
on recent Guatemalan history. Portfolios of images present his early
photojournalistic work documenting the Guatemalan genocide; his “Eros +
Thanatos” series that responds aesthetically to the destruction of war; and his
Street Angel project, which uses his images in "So That All Shall
Know" to protest against injustice and historical forgetting around the
world.

Accompanying
the images are bilingual English-Spanish essays by four scholars who discuss
the development of Hernández-Salazar 's art in the context of contemporary
photography, the social and political conditions that inspire his work, and the
broader questions that arise when artists engage in social struggle.