Santiago: Saint of Two Worlds

Penal­ba de San­ti­a­go, Spain
15 x 19” plat­inum-pal­la­di­um print with pas­tel.
Prints are num­bered and signed by the artist

For four cen­turies dur­ing the Mid­dle Ages, half a mil­lion pil­grims a year made the lengthy and dif­fi­cult jour­ney from their home­lands to the north­west­ern cor­ner of Spain. There, in the cathe­dral of San­ti­a­go de Com­postela, accord­ing to local his­to­ry, lay the remains of St. James, the patron saint of Spain. A pil­grim­age to Com­postela ranked with those to Jerusalem and Rome as the most sacred of jour­neys.

Joan Myers’ pho­tographs of the Span­ish pil­grim­age and its reper­cus­sions on the His­pan­ic New World have been shown in a trav­el­ing exhi­bi­tion orga­nized by the Albu­querque Muse­um. They were pub­lished in San­ti­a­go: Saint of Two Worlds (with text by Joan Myers, Don­na Pierce and Marc Sim­mons), pub­lished by Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co Press, 1991 (now out of print).

Pil­grims
19 x 15” plat­inum-pal­la­di­um print with pas­tel.
Prints are num­bered and signed by the artist

For four cen­turies dur­ing the Mid­dle Ages, half a mil­lion pil­grims a year made the lengthy and dif­fi­cult jour­ney from their home­lands to the north­west­ern cor­ner of Spain. There, in the cathe­dral of San­ti­a­go de Com­postela, accord­ing to local his­to­ry, lay the remains of St. James, the patron saint of Spain. A pil­grim­age to Com­postela ranked with those to Jerusalem and Rome as the most sacred of jour­neys.

Joan Myers’ pho­tographs of the Span­ish pil­grim­age and its reper­cus­sions on the His­pan­ic New World have been shown in a trav­el­ing exhi­bi­tion orga­nized by the Albu­querque Muse­um. They were pub­lished in San­ti­a­go: Saint of Two Worlds (with text by Joan Myers, Don­na Pierce and Marc Sim­mons), pub­lished by Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co Press, 1991 (now out of print).

San­ti­a­guero dancers, Mex­i­co
15 x 19” plat­inum-pal­la­di­um print with pas­tel.
Prints are num­bered and signed by the artist

For four cen­turies dur­ing the Mid­dle Ages, half a mil­lion pil­grims a year made the lengthy and dif­fi­cult jour­ney from their home­lands to the north­west­ern cor­ner of Spain. There, in the cathe­dral of San­ti­a­go de Com­postela, accord­ing to local his­to­ry, lay the remains of St. James, the patron saint of Spain. A pil­grim­age to Com­postela ranked with those to Jerusalem and Rome as the most sacred of jour­neys.

Joan Myers’ pho­tographs of the Span­ish pil­grim­age and its reper­cus­sions on the His­pan­ic New World have been shown in a trav­el­ing exhi­bi­tion orga­nized by the Albu­querque Muse­um. They were pub­lished in San­ti­a­go: Saint of Two Worlds (with text by Joan Myers, Don­na Pierce and Marc Sim­mons), pub­lished by Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co Press, 1991 (now out of print).

San Adri­an de Sasave, Spain
19 x 15” plat­inum-pal­la­di­um print with pas­tel.
Prints are num­bered and signed by the artist

For four cen­turies dur­ing the Mid­dle Ages, half a mil­lion pil­grims a year made the lengthy and dif­fi­cult jour­ney from their home­lands to the north­west­ern cor­ner of Spain. There, in the cathe­dral of San­ti­a­go de Com­postela, accord­ing to local his­to­ry, lay the remains of St. James, the patron saint of Spain. A pil­grim­age to Com­postela ranked with those to Jerusalem and Rome as the most sacred of jour­neys.

Joan Myers’ pho­tographs of the Span­ish pil­grim­age and its reper­cus­sions on the His­pan­ic New World have been shown in a trav­el­ing exhi­bi­tion orga­nized by the Albu­querque Muse­um. They were pub­lished in San­ti­a­go: Saint of Two Worlds (with text by Joan Myers, Don­na Pierce and Marc Sim­mons), pub­lished by Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co Press, 1991 (now out of print).

Key, Vil­lafran­ca del Bier­zo, Spain
19 x 15” plat­inum-pal­la­di­um print with pas­tel.
Prints are num­bered and signed by the artist

For four cen­turies dur­ing the Mid­dle Ages, half a mil­lion pil­grims a year made the lengthy and dif­fi­cult jour­ney from their home­lands to the north­west­ern cor­ner of Spain. There, in the cathe­dral of San­ti­a­go de Com­postela, accord­ing to local his­to­ry, lay the remains of St. James, the patron saint of Spain. A pil­grim­age to Com­postela ranked with those to Jerusalem and Rome as the most sacred of jour­neys.

Joan Myers’ pho­tographs of the Span­ish pil­grim­age and its reper­cus­sions on the His­pan­ic New World have been shown in a trav­el­ing exhi­bi­tion orga­nized by the Albu­querque Muse­um. They were pub­lished in San­ti­a­go: Saint of Two Worlds (with text by Joan Myers, Don­na Pierce and Marc Sim­mons), pub­lished by Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co Press, 1991 (now out of print).

Puente la Reina, Spain
15 x 19” plat­inum-pal­la­di­um print with pas­tel.
Prints are num­bered and signed by the artist

For four cen­turies dur­ing the Mid­dle Ages, half a mil­lion pil­grims a year made the lengthy and dif­fi­cult jour­ney from their home­lands to the north­west­ern cor­ner of Spain. There, in the cathe­dral of San­ti­a­go de Com­postela, accord­ing to local his­to­ry, lay the remains of St. James, the patron saint of Spain. A pil­grim­age to Com­postela ranked with those to Jerusalem and Rome as the most sacred of jour­neys.

Joan Myers’ pho­tographs of the Span­ish pil­grim­age and its reper­cus­sions on the His­pan­ic New World have been shown in a trav­el­ing exhi­bi­tion orga­nized by the Albu­querque Muse­um. They were pub­lished in San­ti­a­go: Saint of Two Worlds (with text by Joan Myers, Don­na Pierce and Marc Sim­mons), pub­lished by Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co Press, 1991 (now out of print).