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The entire set of exhibition prints that comprised El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers was recently donated to ICP's collection. These images were first presented at ICP in 1984, at the height of that country's civil war; following its premiere at ICP, the exhibition traveled extensively throughout the U.S.—to museums as well as churches, college galleries, and public libraries—and became a notable instance of photographers' working collaboratively to raise public awareness about an urgent political situation.
Background of the conflict In 1979, a coup d'etat in El Salvador initiated a bloody twelve-year civil war. The subsequent assassination of human-rights advocate Archbishop Oscar Romero and the murder of four U.S. churchwomen in 1980 drew world attention to the violent repression in El Salvador. The Reagan administration, which sought to prevent a takeover by leftist guerillas (whom they suspected of receiving aid from Cuba as well as from the newly victorious leftist government of neighboring Nicaragua), supported the junta with military and economic aid throughout the early 1980s. During this time, right-wing death squads accounted for the murder or disappearance of some 70,000 civilians.
The photographers:
Aslak Aarhus
Carlos Aparicio
J. Ross Baughman
Cynthia Brito
Patrick Chauvel
Richard Cross
Owen Franken
Gianni Giansanti
Mike Goldwater
John Hoagland
Oswaldo Iten
Cindy Karp
Alain Keler
Harry Mattison
Susan Meiselas
Ivan Montecinos
Etienne Montes
James Nachtwey
Bob Nickelsberg
Michel Philippot
Christian Poveda
Olivier Rebbot
Eli Reed
Alon Reininger
Eugene Richards
Arturo Robles
Michel Setboun
Kenneth Silverman
Bill Stanton
Chris Steele-Perkins
Soldiers search bus passengers along the Northern Highway, San Salvador, 1980.
© Susan Meiselas/Magnum
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