MEXICAN PHOTOGRAPHY - Actes Sud
Mexico is one of the countries where the use of photography has been most vibrant over the last 180 years, with photographic practices acquiring a singular autonomy early on, enlivened by outside influences. This Photo Poche takes stock of the situation, based on scattered but effective publications, and on the recent gathering of authors' collections.
The Mexican population, whether urban or rural, seems to have a taste for photographic evidence of social life or political events.
political events. The German Hugo Brehme promotes systematic documentation of the country and its traditions, which is then followed by the more poetic
Manuel Alvarez Bravo's more poetic approach, or Tina Modotti's more committed one, alongside a singular artistic activity endorsed by the French Surrealists. Photojournalism found a local translation that benefited from the support of the media, and since the 1960s, women photographers have played an astonishing role in the development of a photographic poetics, less event-driven, capable of capturing the syncretic imaginations of this country). In an apparent heterogeneity unique to Mexico, disparate indigenous traditions discovered through archaeology (Maya, Aztec, etc.), colonial imperatives (Catholicism), revolutionary imperatives (establishment of military and police powers) and social particularisms (death cults, lucha libre, etc.) rub shoulders - and clash.
Published by Actes Sud, 2018
12.50 cm x 19.00 cm, 208 pages, new
ISBN : 978-2-7427-9792-9
Mexico is one of the countries where the use of photography has been most vibrant over the last 180 years, with photographic practices acquiring a singular autonomy early on, enlivened by outside influences. This Photo Poche takes stock of the situation, based on scattered but effective publications, and on the recent gathering of authors' collections.
The Mexican population, whether urban or rural, seems to have a taste for photographic evidence of social life or political events.
political events. The German Hugo Brehme promotes systematic documentation of the country and its traditions, which is then followed by the more poetic
Manuel Alvarez Bravo's more poetic approach, or Tina Modotti's more committed one, alongside a singular artistic activity endorsed by the French Surrealists. Photojournalism found a local translation that benefited from the support of the media, and since the 1960s, women photographers have played an astonishing role in the development of a photographic poetics, less event-driven, capable of capturing the syncretic imaginations of this country). In an apparent heterogeneity unique to Mexico, disparate indigenous traditions discovered through archaeology (Maya, Aztec, etc.), colonial imperatives (Catholicism), revolutionary imperatives (establishment of military and police powers) and social particularisms (death cults, lucha libre, etc.) rub shoulders - and clash.
Published by Actes Sud, 2018
12.50 cm x 19.00 cm, 208 pages, new
ISBN : 978-2-7427-9792-9
Mexico is one of the countries where the use of photography has been most vibrant over the last 180 years, with photographic practices acquiring a singular autonomy early on, enlivened by outside influences. This Photo Poche takes stock of the situation, based on scattered but effective publications, and on the recent gathering of authors' collections.
The Mexican population, whether urban or rural, seems to have a taste for photographic evidence of social life or political events.
political events. The German Hugo Brehme promotes systematic documentation of the country and its traditions, which is then followed by the more poetic
Manuel Alvarez Bravo's more poetic approach, or Tina Modotti's more committed one, alongside a singular artistic activity endorsed by the French Surrealists. Photojournalism found a local translation that benefited from the support of the media, and since the 1960s, women photographers have played an astonishing role in the development of a photographic poetics, less event-driven, capable of capturing the syncretic imaginations of this country). In an apparent heterogeneity unique to Mexico, disparate indigenous traditions discovered through archaeology (Maya, Aztec, etc.), colonial imperatives (Catholicism), revolutionary imperatives (establishment of military and police powers) and social particularisms (death cults, lucha libre, etc.) rub shoulders - and clash.
Published by Actes Sud, 2018
12.50 cm x 19.00 cm, 208 pages, new
ISBN : 978-2-7427-9792-9
