Muchachos await the counterattack by the National Guard. Matagalpa, Nicaragua
Photograph
Muchachos await the counterattack by the National Guard. Matagalpa, Nicaragua
August 1978
Chromogenic development print, printed 1985
Image: 8 9/16 × 13 in. (21.8 × 33 cm)
Paper: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.5 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Lila Acheson Wallace fund
1985.0754.0001
Inscriptions Signed in ink on recto, BR: Susan Meiselas
Titled and dated in ink on verso, BL: Matagalpa Nicaragua August 1978
Back printing on verso, OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
Titled and dated in ink on verso, BL: Matagalpa Nicaragua August 1978
Back printing on verso, OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
TextWith no prior experience in war reporting, Susan Meiselas arrived in Nicaragua in June 1978, right before the uprising that would end the Somoza dictatorship. Meiselas, working for Magnum, began photographing in black and white, but changed to color film because she felt it would better represent the revolution and the horrors of war. In this photograph, armed men are at attention in front of a deep red wall, the color evocative of the blood that would spilled during the next attack. Meiselas documented the turmoil in the country through to the successful revolution.
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