Miguel A. Gandert photograph collection [picture]. 1977 to [ongoing]

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Gandert, Miguel A. Miguel A. Gandert photograph collection [picture].

Miguel A. Gandert photograph collection [picture]. 1977 to [ongoing]

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Collection consists of black-and-white photographs by New Mexican photographer and University of New Mexico faculty member Miguel Gandert. Photographic series include the 1988 Amador Flores occupation in Tierra Amarilla, N.M., with portraits of Reyes Lopez Tijerina, Pedro Archuleta, and Rafael Flores; and NEH grant-funded series on the traditional farming communities near San Luis, Colo. and the Taylor Ranch protest (1996-97); the Varrio [Barrio] San Jose project in Albuquerque, N.M. (1982-86). Miscellaneous subjects include "Hands Across America" event (1986), views of Albuquerque, a Penitente morada near Pecos, N.M., Indo-Hispanic dances (from the Nuevo Mexico Profundo series), Albuquerque boxers from the exhibit "Two Corners of a Ring" (1977-78), NM State Fair, prison scenes, a Mothers' Day Protest in Honduras (1983), and scenes made in Albuquerque's Martineztown neighborhood (1992). Subjects represented include Hispanic American portraits and traditions, land grants and land tenure issues, agriculture, Chicano portraits and lifestyles, City of Albuquerque, boxing, prisons, the Hermanos Penitentes religious brotherhood, Indo-Hispanic dances, and political protests.

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