Recuerdos de Nuestro Pasado

Angela Cyla

• Other Authors Sergio Guzmán (Author), Jose Lovos (Author), Gloria Revelo (Author), Erin Segal (Author), Davy Shlasko (Editor)
• Title

  Recuerdos de Nuestro Pasado

• Date 2018
• ISBN 1732066601
• Publisher Washington, DC: Thick Press
• Description 112 p.; 10 in; color ill.
• Language English, Spanish
• Collections Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room
• Summary

  Recuerdos de Nuestro Pasado is a multi-vocal memoir about growing up in El Salvador and growing old in Washington, DC. Part oral history, part artist’s book, Recuerdos emerged unexpectedly from a storytelling group at Mary’s Center’s Bernice Fonteneau Senior Wellness Center. Using alternating English-language stanzas, the book expresses the life stories of four senior citizens. Recuerdos includes images of the seniors’ photographs and objects, as well as illustrations by the book designer. Eight narrow pages contain content referencing the collaborative practices that engendered this unusual book-as-object. The book is published by Thick Press, a collaboration between social worker Erin Segal and designer Julie Cho.

• Tags History, Latin American studies, Photography, Poetry, Social documentary photography, Spanish language