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Óyeme con los Ojos

Óyeme con los Ojos

Hardcover English 86 pages

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Published by Luna Press in 2011, *Óyeme con los Ojos* is an 86-page photography book centered on Josephine Sacabo. It was produced to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans, placing the publication within a specific museum and regional context rather than presenting it as an autonomous trade monograph. The clothbound hardcover format gives this compact volume the character of a considered exhibition record.

The Spanish title—literally, “Hear me with your eyes”—proposes an exchange between sight and forms of attention more often associated with listening. It is an apt interpretive frame for a photographic publication: the reader is asked not simply to identify what an image depicts, but to attend to what can be conveyed without speech. That proposition connects the book’s title, medium, and retrospective purpose without prescribing a single reading of Sacabo’s work.

As a book made in conjunction with a retrospective, *Óyeme con los Ojos* occupies two roles. It belongs to the life of an exhibition, documenting the moment when an artist’s work was gathered and reconsidered by a museum; it also carries that encounter beyond the gallery. Its relatively concentrated length gives the project a defined scale, while the hardcover presentation situates it among publications intended for sustained handling and return viewing.

For collectors, the book’s significance lies most securely in this convergence of artist, museum, and independent publisher. It records Sacabo’s association with a retrospective at the Ogden Museum and preserves that institutional occasion in book form. Those interested in museum photography publications, New Orleans photographic culture, or the ways exhibition projects are translated into sequences of printed pages will find here a focused document whose importance rests on context and form rather than claims of scarcity.

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