Nicaragua, June 1978-July 1979

Originally published in 1981, Susan Meiselas' Nicaragua is a modern classic—a seminal contribution to the literature of concerned photojournalism. The book forms an extraordinary narrative of a nation in turmoil, tracing the evolution of the popular resistance that led to the insurrection, culminating with the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in 1979. The images communicate the complex politics and the state of a nation through a sequence carefully built to follow a train of events, moving from the declining Somoza regime to the revolutionary struggle.