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PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300140924

ISBN-139780300140927

eBay Product ID (ePID)66094599

Product Key Features

Book TitleSeeing Mexico Photographed : the Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Alvarez Bravo

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLatin America / Mexico, Sociology / General, Mexico, History, Photoessays & Documentaries

Publication Year2008

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Social Science, Photography, History

AuthorLeonard Folgarait

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height2.3 in

Item Weight29.7 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-006086

Reviews"Different from the usual stylistic approach, this is storytelling at its best. This turn is unusual in such a historical study, and it gives this work a true significance concerning intent and context. . . . Highly recommended."- Choice, "Different from the usual stylistic approach, this is storytelling at its best. This turn is unusual in such a historical study, and it gives this work a true significance concerning intent and context. . . . Highly recommended."-Choice, "Different from the usual stylistic approach, this is storytelling at its best. This turn is unusual in such a historical study, and it gives this work a true significance concerning intent and context. . . . Highly recommended."ï¿½Choice

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal770.972

SynopsisThis engrossing book presents the photographs of four historically engaged artists and explains what they reveal about the highly dramatic revolutionary and post-revolutionary period in Mexico from 1910 to 1935. The works of these photographers--American Walter H. Horne, Italian Tina Modotti, and Mexicans Agustn Vctor Casasola and Manuel lvarez Bravo--are discussed not just as windows onto events but as artworks that offer both objective reporting and stylized expression. The twenty-five years covered in the book encompass some of the most convulsive developments in Mexico, from the violence and cataclysmic changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution to the immense struggles to forge a new nation and a new government. During this period, the work of the four photographers--two primarily documentary, one propagandistic, and one artistic and personal--enabled Mexicans to understand the forces that had brought their nation to armed conflict and social transformation., This engrossing book presents the photographs of four historically engaged artists and explains what they reveal about the highly dramatic revolutionary and post-revolutionary period in Mexico from 1910 to 1935. The works of these photographersAmerican Walter H. Horne, Italian Tina Modotti, and Mexicans Agustin Victor Casasola and Manuel Alvarez Bravoare discussed not just as windows onto events but as artworks that offer both objective reporting and stylized expression.The twenty-five years covered in the book encompass some of the most convulsive developments in Mexico, from the violence and cataclysmic changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution to the immense struggles to forge a new nation and a new government. During this period, the work of the four photographerstwo primarily documentary, one propagandistic, and one artistic and personalenabled Mexicans to understand the forces that had brought their nation to armed conflict and social transformation."

LC Classification NumberTR820.5.F645 2008