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CONACULTA
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INAH
Clothbound
80 Pages
28 Photographs
31 x 37 cm
Olivier Andreotti (Toluca Èditions)
English edition
ISBN :
978-607-7515-27-2
ISBN Verlag:
978-84-92480-68-5
2008
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Among ancient sounds and stones that emanate from another time, Tomás Casademunt undertakes with his camera a journey along the Ruta Puuc, the route of the “group of hills” in the Yucatán peninsula. Like a “fortuitous cosmonaut on a remote planet”, he deciphers the truth about those Mayans who devised the most accurate calendar, those modern visionaries. In the moonlight in front of the Mayan palaces, under the same constellations that governed the destiny of ancient Mexico, where metaphysics formed part of the cosmos, the visible and
invisible, the meaning of these that make up the world.
Ruta Puuc offers twenty-eight disquieting black-and-white images taken with 18x24 centimeter plates. Amidst these photographs a travel diary is inserted, written to the rhythm of the phases of the moon to illustrate a revealing personal journey. The 60-minute exposure of the photographs shows the ruins as they must have been seen, 1,500 years ago, by the inhabitants of Oxkintok, Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, Koom, Chichen Itzá, Xkich-Moo, and Xlapak.
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