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Sante Fe: Radius Books, 2009. Hardcover. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on the top text block. Due date card on the back free end page. Sticker on the back pasted end page.. Matte printed boards with a matching dust jacket. The dust jacket has white text down a black spine. Pages: (8), 9-95, (1). Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. "Beginning in the mid-1990s, Louisiana-born photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery lived and worked on the grounds of the Catholic church in a small village in northeastern Mexico using a tortilla shack as her studio. In addition to the religious life of the town, she turned her lens on the nearby cantina that occasionally served as a brothel. "The Spirit and the Flesh" explores the themes of grace, redemption, sin and forgiveness that Caffery encountered in this community--of which she has said, "I felt incredibly comfortable in a culture rich in celebrations of religious feasts, with strong, independent, highly emotional people, much like the people I grew up…
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