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EDUARDO DEL VALLE AND MIRTA GÓMEZ : FROM THE GROUND UP DETAILS: Eduardo del Valle and Mirta Gómez (born ) DESCRIPTION: The Cuban-born husband and wife team of Eduardo del Valle and Mirta Gómez has worked collaboratively for 30 years, receiving international acclaim for their photographs of subjects in a state of flux. From the Ground Up is a three-part photographic essay focusing on the metamorphosis of the vernacular architecture of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. This fascinating study, comprising photographs taken from the mid-1980s to the present, is surely the most extensive and comprehensive record of the design and evolution of this region's built structures. Del Valle and Gómez are recipients of Guggenheim, Cintas and NEA fellowships in photography. Their work has been widely exhibited in the USA and abroad, and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Brooklyn Museum. "It's beautifully made color photography and an achievement of enormous richness. Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez have followed one thread with great tenacity. I don't know of any other body of work quite like it." — John Szarkowski "By simple, unobtrusive means, by standing still and staring, these two resourceful photographers show how the individual histories of people and places are rewritten year to year, season to season." — Richard Woodward |
