Mexico, a Photographic History

Mexico, a Photographic History
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Publisher : RM+Conaculta
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822034276394
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Synopsis Mexico, a Photographic History by : Rosa Casanova

Three decades after its foundation the National Photo Library is published the first large catalog of its collection. The volumeprovides an overview of the art of photography in Mexico and showcases one of the most important Latin American collections,irreplaceable testimony of more than 130 years of social history, political, cultural, artistic, scientific and economic life. Includes brief descriptions and large samples of funds Fototecamost interesting: the Mexican past and their indigenous heritage,the pioneer photographers of the nineteenth century, theCasasola collection, the photographs of Guillermo Kahlo's colonial architecture, records of Modotti, Brehme, Lopez andmany more. This book, bound in cloth and with the title stampedin gold letters, is a useful compendium to several researchers, as well as an endless source of delight for lovers of photography.

Mexican Suite

Mexican Suite
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 0292716117
ISBN-13 : 9780292716117
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Mexican Suite by : Olivier Debroise

"Now this publication is available in English as Mexican Suite. Olivier Debroise and Stella de Sa Rego have revised this edition to include more current material and explanatory notes for an audience less familiar with Mexican history. They have also eliminated some of the general history of photography and added more of the early history of photography in Mexico, as well as many new, previously unpublished images. The book is organized both chronologically and thematically, which allows viewer/readers to follow the evolution of major photographic genres and styles. Debroise also examines the role of photography in the development of modern Mexico and the influence of prominent foreign photographers such as Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Photographing the Mexican Revolution

Photographing the Mexican Revolution
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780292742833
ISBN-13 : 0292742835
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Photographing the Mexican Revolution by : John Mraz

The Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920 is among the world’s most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes—commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of the Revolution remain iconic to this day—Francisco Villa galloping toward the camera; Villa lolling in the presidential chair next to Emiliano Zapata; and Zapata standing stolidly in charro raiment with a carbine in one hand and the other hand on a sword, to mention only a few. But the identities of those who created the thousands of extant images of the Mexican Revolution, and what their purposes were, remain a huge puzzle because photographers constantly plagiarized each other’s images. In this pathfinding book, acclaimed photography historian John Mraz carries out a monumental analysis of photographs produced during the Mexican Revolution, focusing primarily on those made by Mexicans, in order to discover who took the images and why, to what ends, with what intentions, and for whom. He explores how photographers expressed their commitments visually, what aesthetic strategies they employed, and which identifications and identities they forged. Mraz demonstrates that, contrary to the myth that Agustín Víctor Casasola was “the photographer of the Revolution,” there were many who covered the long civil war, including women. He shows that specific photographers can even be linked to the contending forces and reveals a pattern of commitment that has been little commented upon in previous studies (and completely unexplored in the photography of other revolutions).

Mexico

Mexico
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 413
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ISBN-10 : 9780520244917
ISBN-13 : 0520244915
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Mexico by : Alicia Hernández Chávez

A general text on Mexican history, combining political, economic, and historical information.

Timeless Mexico

Timeless Mexico
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 0292728786
ISBN-13 : 9780292728783
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Timeless Mexico by : Susan Toomey Frost

Hugo Brehme created an idyllic vision of Mexico that influenced photography, film, and literature for a hundred years. His beautifully composed, timeless images of lo mexicano—cacti and pyramids, Indian children and marketplaces, colonial buildings and snow-capped volcanoes and peaks—were widely distributed and acclaimed both in Mexico and internationally. Noted critic Olivier Debroise characterized Brehme as "both the first modern photographer of Mexico and the last representative of its old guard and of a certain nineteenth-century vision." Working in Mexico from 1905 until his death in 1954, he was an early mentor to Mexico's most famous photographer, Manuel álvarez Bravo, and a significant influence on Golden Age filmmakers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio "El Indio" Fernández. Brehme-esque imagery even appears in the work of American filmmaker John Ford and Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. Timeless Mexico presents an outstanding selection of Hugo Brehme's photographs, ranging from imagery of the Mexican Revolution to scenic landscapes, colonial architecture, and the everyday life of indigenous peoples. Susan Toomey Frost, who has collected Brehme's photography for many years, provides an illuminating introduction to his life and work. She also describes his practice of printing and distributing his photographs as collectible postcards—a practice that, together with publication in countless books, magazines, and tourist brochures, gave Brehme's work the wide circulation that made his images of Mexico iconic. Art historian Stella de Sá Rego authoritatively discusses Brehme's place in the history of Mexican photography, especially within Pictorialism, as she reveals how a man from Eisenach, Germany, came to create an enduring visual mythology of the essence of Mexico.

Looking for Mexico

Looking for Mexico
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9780822392200
ISBN-13 : 0822392208
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Looking for Mexico by : John Mraz

In Looking for Mexico, a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico’s modern visual culture from the U.S. invasion of 1847 to the present. Along the way, he illuminates the powerful role of photographs, films, illustrated magazines, and image-filled history books in the construction of national identity, showing how Mexicans have both made themselves and been made with the webs of significance spun by modern media. Central to Mraz’s book is photography, which was distributed widely throughout Mexico in the form of cartes-de-visite, postcards, and illustrated magazines. Mraz analyzes the work of a broad range of photographers, including Guillermo Kahlo, Winfield Scott, Hugo Brehme, Agustín Víctor Casasola, Tina Modotti, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Héctor García, Pedro Meyer, and the New Photojournalists. He also examines representations of Mexico’s past in the country’s influential picture histories: popular, large-format, multivolume series replete with thousands of photographs and an assortment of texts. Turning to film, Mraz compares portrayals of the Mexican Revolution by Fernando de Fuentes to the later movies of Emilio Fernández and Gabriel Figueroa. He considers major stars of Golden Age cinema as gender archetypes for mexicanidad, juxtaposing the charros (hacienda cowboys) embodied by Pedro Infante, Pedro Armendáriz, and Jorge Negrete with the effacing women: the mother, Indian, and shrew as played by Sara García, Dolores del Río, and María Félix. Mraz also analyzes the leading comedians of the Mexican screen, representations of the 1968 student revolt, and depictions of Frida Kahlo in films made by Paul Leduc and Julie Taymor. Filled with more than fifty illustrations, Looking for Mexico is an exuberant plunge into Mexico’s national identity, its visual culture, and the connections between the two.

A Brief History of Mexico

A Brief History of Mexico
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780816074051
ISBN-13 : 0816074054
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis A Brief History of Mexico by : Lynn V. Foster

Praise for the previous editions: ..".well researched...concise...interesting..."--American Reference Books Annual

Mexico

Mexico
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Total Pages : 74
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000014885464
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Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Mexico by : David Gibbon

Captioned color photographs portray the various scenes, places of interest, and people of Mexico.

Mexico, the Revolution and Beyond

Mexico, the Revolution and Beyond
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Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822033535055
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Synopsis Mexico, the Revolution and Beyond by : Agustín Víctor Casasola

Agustín Victor Casasola photographed everyone of consequence in Mexico at the time of the revolution, from Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Emiliano Zapata and the exiled Russian leader Leon Trotsky to artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. For this splendid collection of Casasola's work, the noted American author Pete Hamill has written a rich essay on the photographer and the Mexico he pictured so well.

Photographic

Photographic
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 99
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ISBN-10 : 9781606068144
ISBN-13 : 1606068148
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Photographic by : Isabel Quintero

This young adult graphic biography follows the life of one of Mexico’s greatest living photographers, Graciela Iturbide, as she makes her way from Mexico City to the Sonoran Desert, Los Angeles, India, and beyond. The kaleidoscopic narrative offers deep insight into the path of a young photographer from an early tragedy to great fame. Renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942, the oldest of thirteen children. When tragedy strikes Graciela as a young mother, she turns to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Graciela embarks on a photographic journey that takes her throughout her native Mexico, from the Sonora Desert to Juchitán to Frida Kahlo’s bathroom, and then to the United States, India, and beyond. Photographic is a symbolic, poetic, and deeply personal graphic biography of this iconic photographer. Graciela’s journey will excite young adults and budding photographers, who will be inspired by her resolve, talent, and curiosity. Ages twelve and up