"The Carnation Revolution, which on April 25, 1974 marks the end of a half-century of dictatorship in Portugal undeniably, created a vast iconography. (...) Quite different are the pictures of the 1974-75 Revolutionary sequence, of the hot summer and the Alentejo peasant movement (..) In Elizabeth Lennard's work, we find the same ingredients: that of the walls that enter the conversation, that of the extraordinary beauty of the landscapes of the South and the workers etched faces, also of the Revolutionary romanticism and the alliance of the forces of the people. (...)from preface by Jean-Francois Chougnet