Fox Home: el Vaquero's Web Photo Gallery Up On Zoom Street

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". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

From el Vaquero:

I have a photo show up on the web, at the photo zine Zoom Street. They have a monthly gallery, and for January it's twelve of my pictures. They did a great job with it.

I purposely didn't put notes or captions -- a let-the-images-speak-for-themselves kinda thing, all indulging my taste for motion in a still photo, but I'll tell *you* that all the pictures were shot on film, and none of the images are composites, they all happened in the lens, on the fly. I scanned, tweaked the color balances, cropped, and spotted, but that's about it.

In my opinion these photographs are spectacular. All you need to decide for yourself is to click here.

My Historical Research Skills On Display

Some Of Za Fox's Published Works