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Puerto Rico Mio is an extraordinary collection from two series of photographs: the first taken when Delano first went to Puerto Rico with the Farm Security Administration in 1941-42 and the second when he rephotographed those same places in the 1980s.

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Library Journal Review

This handsome collection contrasts duotones Delano shot from 1941 to 1942 while working for the Farm Security Administration with photographs of the same places in the 1980s. They document more effectively than prose the island's transformation from an agrarian to a primarily urban culture. Heavy machines cut the surgarcane once harvested by oxen and farmers; women who strung tobacco leaves assemble electronic circuitboards; stevedores, barefooted and barechested when they hauled sacks of coffee and tobacco, now protect themselves with headgear, gloves, and safety shoes to handle manufactured goods. Delano's love for his adopted country and his subjects' enthusiasm for his projects shine from these photographs. Four essays in English and Spanish add cultural, historical, and aesthetic perspectives.-- Lisa Mullenneaux, Iowa City (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

Delano, who first visited Puerto Rico in 1941 as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration, returned 40 years later to film again the Puerto Rican landscapes and lives he had come to love. Introduced by four brief essays in both English and Spanish by Delano and educator Arturo Morales Carrion, art historian Alan Fern and anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz, the 175 duotones collected here reflect ``the ambiguous, divided situation of a country with which the North Americans have not known how to cope.'' But Delano's editorial eye proves implacably unimaginative, undermining the power of his photographic vision. The images are organized according to two indefatigably repeated principles: contrast (in one spread, tobacco fields of decades past abut a new housing development) and timeless constancy (another pair of photos depicts sugarcane laborers of 1941 and 1981 who are all but identical). Yet, taken individually, his pictures include honest, beautiful, persuasive portraits of farmers and their mules, exquisitely specific domestic still lifes, and poetic evocations of anonymous solitudes. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Jack Delano, one of the now-famous photographers who participated in the Farm Security Administration's landmark documentary photo project begun in the 1930s, traveled extensively throughout the country to shoot every facet of (mostly) rural life. Sent to Puerto Rico, he documented the lives of a poor but proud and gentle agrarian people. He returned often, finally to reside there, and this volume contrasts his 1940s depiction with that of the developing yet still largely impoverished Puerto Rico of the 1980s. Delano's strong black-and-white photos reflect the Puerto Rican people's dignity and humanity and his respect for them. Essays on the people, the island's history, and Delano's achievements preface the photos in side-by-side columns of English and Spanish; comments from some of the persons in the photos follow them. Strongly recommended for its historical, sociological, and anthropological as well as photographic interest. --John Alderson

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Jack Delano was a Farm Security Administration photographer.