La quinta copia
By: Victor Basterra
Contributors: Basterra, Víctor Melchor, 1944-2020
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Asunción Casa Editora
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Language: spa
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9789878672274
Subjects: Interviews; History; State-sponsored terrorism; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism; Pictorial works; Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA, ex Centro Clandestino de Detención, Tortura y Exterminio
Description: La quinta copia (The fifth copy) is based on Victor Basterra's images and testimonies. In 1985, Víctor Melchor Basterra (Buenos Aires, 1944-La Plata, 2020) recounted in detail the torture and humiliation experienced in the interrogation carried out by Dr. Guillermo Ledesma, president of the court where the juntas of the military dictatorship were tried. "Víctor Basterra was a graphic worker and trade union militant arrested and disappeared between 1979 and 1983 in the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina. During his time at the Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA, Navy Mechanics School), he performed forced labor tasks in the laboratory that consisted of portraying, developing and copying passport photographs. Of each image he made an extra (fifth) copy, which he hid in an envelope of photographic paper, thus keeping him safe from inspections and the gaze of the repressive apparatus." (HKB Translation) --Verso Cover
Notes: Cover Title.

"How to manipulate this book: Inside this envelope there is a latent image yet to be developed. This image is sensitive to light. Open the envelope in total darkness and protect it from its glaze. This image can also be revealed." (HKB Translation)

In Spanish.