Burma: Grace under Pressure (slide show with music and English commentary)

Description: 

High quality engaged photography and audio-visual presentation. A complex, compassionate, moving, poetic, meditative, slow-moving photo portrayal of people in contemporary Burma. On-screen and audio commentary by victims of military rule and on-screen quotations/commentary from Aung San Suu Kyi, Timothy Garton Ash, Rory MacLean and others. River, Street, Border (N.B. black and white), Women, Spirit. Burmese musical accompaniment. Light and shade: not a general in sight, but their shadow is present throughout. Forum, Links. Of the photographs, Henri Cartier-Bresson came to mind for the dynamic of people-environment, Edward Curtis for some of the portraits, S. Salgado...

Creator/author: 

Geoffrey Hillier

Source/publisher: 

Geoffrey Hillier

Date of Publication: 

2001-00-00

Date of entry: 

2003-06-03

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  • Individual Documents

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Language: 

English, Burmese

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