Photographer recounts search for lost archive of Uruguay junta - News Summed Up

Photographer recounts search for lost archive of Uruguay junta


Spanish photographer Aurelio Gonzalez's long-lost trove of images of Uruguay in the lead-up to the country's 1973-1985 dictatorship is on display in Paraguay. The secret police grabbed Gonzalez in 1975, torturing him without success to reveal the location of the hidden photos. With the end of the junta in 1985, Gonzalez returned to Uruguay "consumed by anxiety" over the fate of the hidden negatives. Random chance intervened again in 2006, when a former building employee at Lapido told Gonzalez that he found at the opening of a ventilation duct a rusted tin containing more than 30 rolls of film. "And I thought: the tins are metal, we will pull them out with a magnet," Gonzalez recalled.


Source: Fox News September 12, 2016 19:50 UTC



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