Chile from Within
‘Chile from Within’, a book of powerful images by a selection of Chilean photographers, has been translated into an eBook. The release marked the 40th anniversary of the Chilean military coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende.
The book chronicles the country’s regression into a place of fear, exile and visceral silence, beginning with the methodical torture and murder of Allende’s supporters. The Chilean photographers worked for underground newspapers and magazines, putting their lives on the line daily to record the brutality of the “Pinochet Years”.
First published in paper form in 1991, the digital edition of ‘Chile from Within’ provides an interactive way to engage with the publication. The eBook includes declassified CIA documents regarding the coup, video content and an exclusive series of stories about the photographs.
Marco Antonio de la Parra, one of the publication’s contributors, offers an insight into the ongoing impact of the book, “these images are confessional, suicidal; it hurt to take them. I will confront the pain, says the artist, I will dream what my people, what I myself do not dare to dream. In spite of themselves, these photographers took pictures, sometimes not knowing of what. Later in the darkroom, in the exhibition gallery, with the passage of time, they discovered what they had made. The photos will never stop developing.”
The eBook is co-produced by Susan Meiselas with Luis Weinstein, Helen Hughes and Lee E. Douglas and can be downloaded via MAPP editions.
