Bidspirit auction | (DES)INFORMACION. Montevideo. 1986.

(DES)INFORMACION. Montevideo. 1986. - (DES)INFORMACION . Montevideo: s.n., 1986. [4] ff.: il.; 225 mm. One of Jorge Caraballo 's most representative projects. Conceived between 1973 and 1975 , amidst the context of repression and control of information in Uruguay, the work explores the friction between ”documentary” image and critical reading: small photographic sequences, organized in pairs and contrasts, function as devices for dismantling public discourse and its manipulations. Although conceived in the first half of the 1970s, the collection was only published in Montevideo in 1986 , with a text by Mario Benedetti , originally published in the weekly 'AQUI', in which he highlights the great dichotomy between the capacity of large agencies to flood the world with information, while the Third World was only able to produce a tiny fraction, ending with a strong phrase: 'Only the people who live in this country are capable of judging whether the news transmitted from there [by large international news agencies] corresponds or not to that specific reality.' ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate