Title: Pictures from a revolution /
Authors: Meiselas, Susan,; Rogers, Richard P.,; Guzzetti, Alfred, 1942-; Kino International Corporation.; Richard P. Rogers Film Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Publisher: Kino International Corp.,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.; Photojournalism; Journalists United States; Poverty Government policy Nicaragua; Social change Nicaragua.; Poor families.; Revolutionaries Nicaragua.; Available light photography.; Soldiers; Counterrevolutionaries.; Catholics Nicaragua.; Political violence Nicaragua; Propaganda; Cold War; Ciudad Sandino (Managua, Nicaragua); Nicaragua History; Nicaragua Politics and government; Nicaragua Economic conditions
Abstract: In 1981 the photojournalist Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," a book of 70 photographs documenting the Sandinista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returned with two other filmmakers looking for the guerrillas, Somocistas and bystanders captured in her original photographs. The majority of these images were taken as the civil war raged in the cities and towns of Nicaragua. Ten years later she travels from village to village asking survivors of the war if they remember the people pictured in her book. The filmmakers interview those that they are able to locate, asking them, what do they remember, what do they think of their country in the aftermath of the revolution? Meiselas talks to the Sandinistas who fought against Somoza's Guarda Nacional. Some are disillusioned, some still carry the fervor of revolution.