Hombre y Sandia (Man and Watermelon)
sova.nmai.ac.071_ref179
- Creator
- Plyler, Michael, 1955-
- Collection Creator
- Plyler, Michael, 1955-
- Creator
- Plyler, Michael, 1955-
- Culture
- Mam Maya
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- Michael Plyler photographs from Guatemala
- Michael Plyler photographs from Guatemala / Series 4: Mam / 4.2: Mam negatives and transparencies
- Extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic) (Black and white, 4 x 5 inches)
- Date
- 1987-01-23
- Container
- Box 8
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Negatives (photographic)
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Michael Plyler photographs from Guatemala, image #, NMAI.AC.071; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
- Scope and Contents
- Photograph of a Mam man with a watermelon. Photographed by Michael Plyler in Todos Santos Cuchumatan, Guatemala. Neg#17. Same as photographic print Hombre y Sandia (Man and Watermelon) in Subseries 4.1. Description from Plyler: "I spied this watermelon on the window ledge driving into Todos Santos on the day of my arrival. I had my 4x5 set up ready to make a negative one morning. In saunters Juan. He approaches me and asks if I'll take a picture of him astride his horse. I agree to do so but only if I can make a photograph of him not on the horse. We strike a deal, but I point out the fact that the horse is lacking. We agree to come back to this spot at 3:30 that same afternoon to make our respective preferred photos. As I'm driving away I think how absurd it is to make a specific time appointment with a Mayan gentleman who doesn't wear a watch. I arrive at around 3 and get the 4x5 set up. Juan arrives right before three, again without the horse. I mention the lack of horse again and he motions for us to get into my rental car. We drive out of Todos and on a particular curve there is just enough room in a pull-out for the Toyota Tercel. We get out and peer over the edge. He points to a dot of a figure on a trail 800 feet below. He whistles, the dot stops moving, and he makes a circular motion with his hand above his head. He announces that twenty minutes later his brother will bring the horse to us. Sure enough, twenty minutes later I made a 4x5 b/w Polaroid of him on the horse, and then I made this negative for myself."
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- Record ID
- ebl-1727960400884-1727960402153-2