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The New Mexicans: 1981-1983
Book Launch and Signing with Kevin Bubriski
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 3:00-5:00 pm
photo-eye Books
1300 Rufina Circle, Suite A3
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Join us this Saturday for the book launch and signing of photographer Kevin Bubriski's new book The New Mexicans: 1981-1983, just published by Museum of New Mexico Press. Gritty, authentic, and timeless, this follow-up to Bubriski’s best-selling, Look Into My Eyes: nuevo mexicanos por vida expands the lens to include portraits of Native Americans and Anglos in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and parts north, engaging in ceremonies, pilgrimages, and just living.
Can't make the event? Reserve a signed copy here!
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“In only two years in the state—time spent mainly in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and parts north—Kevin Bubriski embraced New Mexico and its people. He photographed everything from tattooed manitos making pilgrimage to the Santuario de Chimayó to traditionally attired Pueblo dancers in ancient plazas, from carefully coiffed politicians courting voters to cowboys in full regalia readying to ride. Even photographs taken inside prison walls are alive with the feisty spirit of the people. For longtime New Mexicans, Bubriski’s photographs will brim with nostalgia and ring with a sense of innocence. But undercurrents of historical trauma, social inequity, poverty, and environmental degradation have always haunted the state, and Bubriski’s images reveal shadows here and there: young boys in a bleak concrete flood-control structure with ‘Free Us’ scrawled in graffiti behind them; a heavily burdened man hitchhiking beside the highway on a freezing day; men scavenging through dumpsters; weed-strewn, overgrazed landscapes.
The New Mexicans, 1981–83 will also captivate those not acquainted with the state, providing insight into the eccentricities and cultural richness of northern New Mexico and the diverse characters who call it home.”
— Don J. Usner
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