Author Archive for Sebastiaan Faber

Highlights from the ALBA site (1): World War II Letters

January 27, 2011
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Highlights from the ALBA site (1): World War II Letters

About a third of the 2,800 volunteers who left from the United States to help defend the Spanish Republic died in Spain. Of the survivors, many went on to fight fascism during World War II in the U.S. Armed Forces. An extensive selection of their letters home was published in 2006 as The...
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IB monuments worldwide

January 27, 2011
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IB monuments worldwide

The Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales (AABI) has been gathering photographs of International Brigade monuments worldwide, from London, Amsterdam, and San Francisco to Belfast, Seattle, and Stockholm. Click here for an overview; send information on any missing monuments to the AABI at aabi@brigadasinternacionales.org
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ALBA’s Peter Carroll to present Cartier-Bresson/SCW screening at SFMOMA

January 26, 2011
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Tomorrow, Thursday Jan. 27th, ALBA's Peter N. Carroll will present the second set of Spanish Civil War screenings at the San Franciso Museum of Modern Art, including Le Retour (Cartier-Bresson, 1944-45, 33 min), The Spanish Earth (Ivens, 1937, 52 min), and Guernica (Resnais/Hessens, 1950, 13 min). Phyllis Wattis Theater, 7:00 p.m.  Made at the end of...
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Jack Edwards (1914-2011)

January 26, 2011
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Jack Edwards (1914-2011)

Jim Jump writes with sad news:

I’m sorry to have to report that Jack Edwards, veteran of the battles of Jarama, Teruel and the Ebro and a cheerful and loyal friend to many people in the IBMT, died this morning (26 January 2011) in hospital in Telford at the age of...
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Colombia considers hiring Garzón

January 25, 2011
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Colombia considers hiring Garzón

The Colombian government is contemplating the hire of Baltasar Garzón as Human Rights advisor as it sets up a process for transitional justice, ABC and Público report. The Judge has been suspended from his post at the National Criminal Court pending three cases against him at the Supreme Court. Last week,...
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SCW correspondent show in Manila

January 24, 2011
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SCW correspondent show in Manila

Lito B. Zulueta at the Philippine Daily Inquirer visits the touring exhibit on foreign correspondents covering the Spanish Civil War, currently on display at the Instituto Cervantes in Manila:

the war was above all a propaganda war, or a war of dispatches, waged by Spanish and foreign correspondents who harbored within...
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Milton Rogovin, 1909-2011

January 24, 2011
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Milton Rogovin, 1909-2011

The renowned social documentary photographer and activist Milton Rogovin died last week, aged 101. From the Buffalo News:

Mr. Rogovin turned to photography not long after being hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1957 for leftist political activity. ... His photography would take him from West Side...
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Documentary about Garzón screened at Berlin

January 21, 2011
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Documentary about Garzón screened at Berlin

To the surprise of many, El País reports, the programming for the Berlin Film Festival this February includes a feature-length documentary about Baltasar Garzón by the Catalan director Isabel Coixet (The Secret Life of Words, My Life Without Me), based on a long interview that the novelist Manuel Rivas held with...
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TNR on Capa, Cartier-Bresson, and other photojournalists

January 19, 2011
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TNR on Capa, Cartier-Bresson, and other photojournalists

A propos of Susie Linfield's new book on Robert Capa, James Nachtwey, and others, Jed Perl reflects in The New Republic on the importance of "great photojournalism":

Photojournalists are yesterday’s heroes. ... Few photographers are any longer seen as providing definitive information about some national or international trouble spot, at...
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New video uploads (4): “¡No pasarán!”

January 19, 2011
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New video uploads (4): “¡No pasarán!”

Another clip from Facing Fascism:

"No pasarán"--"They shall not pass"--was the antifascist rallying call throughout the war. The phrase referred to the defense of Madrid from the Fascist onslaught. A Spanish cigar maker living in Tampa, Florida, composed a song with those words as the refrain; it was recorded on a...
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