Miguel Covarrubias and the Irony of Imagery

Covarrubias, that trendy Mexican, may be the one who portrayed Bali as we have come to know it, or perhaps more precisely, how we remember it. His classic work, Island of Bali, captured the image of the supple and beautiful woman carrying ritual offerings or perhaps bathing at a spring. We imagined that this was the reality, long before we experienced Bali for ourselves. However, is it not the case