Thomas Hoepker

Return of the Maya

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Latin America's longest civil war ended in 1996. The peace accord between Guatemala's conservative government and the Marxist guerrilla group the URNG brought an end to 36 years of conflict, with almost 150,000 people killed and another 50,000 still missing. Most of the victims were the Mayan people, who were brutally oppressed by both sides.

Thomas Hoepker has visited Guatemala six times since 1991, and in "Return of the Maya", he has documented the Maya's redisy of their magnificent culture and history. Of special concern is the Maya's search through the killing fields for their dead, and of the rituals, both Catholic and Mayan, that are central to their culture and which has helped them begin to heal their emotional and societal wounds. Hoepker has captured many aspects of this remarkable period of transition, and has arranged them in an array of astonishing photographs that will disturb, enchant, and amaze.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 11.5 x 9.5 x 1 inches
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication Year: 1998
ISBN: 0805060073

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Thomas Hoepker

Thomas Hoepker studied art history and archeology, then worked as a photographer for Münchner Illustrierte and Kristall between 1960 and 1963, reporting from all over the world. He joined Stern magazine as a photo-reporter in 1964.

Magnum began to distribute Hoepker’s archive photographs in 1964. He worked as cameraman and producer of documentary films for German television in 1972, and from 1974 collaborated with his wife, the journalist Eva Windmoeller, first in East Germany and then in New York, where they moved to work as correspondents for Stern in 1976. From 1978 to 1981 Hoepker was director of photography for the American edition of Geo.

He was president of Magnum Photos from 2003 to 2006. A retrospective exhibition, showing 230 images from fifty years of work, toured Germany and other parts of Europe in 2007.