LA Vida Nortena: Photographs of Sonora, Mexico | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gary Paul Nabhan, Thomas E. Sheridan
Creator: David L. Burckhalter
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1070208
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0826318495
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.17
EAN: 9780826318497
ASIN: 0826318495
Publication Date: February 1998
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Book Description
For the last quarter century, David Burckhalter has photographed the diverse peoples, cultures, and landscapes of Sonora, Mxico. These fifty-two black-and-white images are a representative cross-section of Burckhalter's massive body of work on Sonora's Indians, Hispanos, and Mestizos who, for hundreds of years, have lived in isolation in Sonora's high mountains, elevated valleys, desert plains, and coastal beaches. His subjectsmen, women, and childrenare Seris, Yaquis, Mayos, cowboys, fishermen, farmers, musicians, tavern keepers and patrons, merchants, weavers, and pilgrims. Essays by Gary Nabhan and Thomas E. Sheridan describe the unique, vivacious cultures of Sonora and explore the value of Burckhalter's photography to our understanding of the region.
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Such lovely sensitive portrayals .... June 6, 2008
I came across some of the still photos from this book in a video on Youtube -- of a song called "Who's Gonna Build Your Wall?" Mr. Burckhalter is a magician with a camera. He has captured truly incredible portraits of Mexicans/Sonorans -- some of the most proficient, touching photos I've ever seen. These are photos of TRUTH and BEAUTY. I am highly recommending the book based on my viewing of the Youtube video.
Beautiful May 19, 2006
Beautiful tribute to ordinary people of Sonora. I came across it while doing research on my family at the time of the Mexican Revolution and it didn't help for that paper, but it was a great viewing nonetheless. The photographs are incredible.
Wow. May 5, 1999
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is incredible -- an honest and sensitive portrait of life in the changing Sonoran desert. I picked it up yesterday and haven't been able to stop looking at it since. Apart from the photography, there are two wonderful essays. In the second, "Another Country", Thomas E. Sheridan tells of falling in love with a place in a way that speaks intimately to my own experience of and passion for Mexico. But I'd better stop before I give a whole dissertation... Buy this book! You won't regret it.
Award Winning Photographs of People of Sonora, Mexico January 14, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Superb black and white photographs, with accompanying essays, concentrate on ordinary people. The result transcends its geographic region; this is about people who just happen to live in Sonora. Winner, Border Regional Library Association's 1998 Southwest Book Award.
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