Harry Mattison 
Harry Mattison has photographed in the Middle East, Europe, Central America, and Africa for over twenty years. His photography has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Paris Match, Double Take and Stern. He mounted a twenty-year retrospective of his photography in 1994. He is a 1999 recipient of a Washington D.C. Arts Council Grant, and is currently Visiting Artist at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore.
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Examples of visual art
Photographers Susan Meiselas and Harry Mattison gathered images taken between 1979 and 1983, creating a traveling exhibition and book to raise global awareness about the conflict in El Salvador.
The International Center of Photography in 2005, and the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin in 2008, hosted Meiselas' and Mattison's photography exhibition titled "Inside El Salvador." The exhibition included more than 100 black-and-white images by 30 international photojournalists portraying the civil war in El Salvador and its aftermath.
A collection of photographs from the exhibition are presented on the following two website.
This 1982 Time cover story on violence in Central America is accompanied by Harry Mattison's photographs.
In March of 1982, Time reported that "the struggle in the streets of Guatemala City was symptomatic of the chaos that was churning through Central America." This article explores political unrest abroad and indicates the manifold challenges for the Reagan Administration "as it tries to find ways of helping the moderates and of bringing stability to a region that is in America's backyard."
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