| Maker(s): | Petegorsky, Stephen
| | Culture: | American, born 1954
| | Title: | Fernando Valle Samora, Walking Unidos Clinic, León, Nicaragua
| | Date Made: | 2000, printed 2011
| | Type: | Photograph
| | Materials: | pigment inkjet print
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 22 in x 17 in; 55.9 cm x 43.2 cm; Image: 20 5/8 in x 13 5/8 in; 52.4 cm x 34.6 cm
| | Accession Number: | AC 2011.45
| | Credit Line: | Gift of the artist (Class of 1975)
| | Museum Collection: | Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Fernando Valle Samora, who was badly injured in an electrical accident, practices walking with a new prosthetic leg in the courtyard of the Walking Unidos Clinic in Leon, Nicaragua.
The juxtaposition of this photograph with Petegosky's Resting, Leon, Nicaragua (AC 2011.51) reveals the practical and psychological consequences of losing a limb. While the photograph of Samora highlights the emotionally difficult and physically strenuous process of re-learning to walk with a prosthetic leg, Resting shows an able-bodied person taking, and perhaps taking for granted, a moment to rest. The contrast suggests that Samora's new necessary mindfulness of his body and inability to work compounds an already taxing situation.
MD, 2013
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