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Mexico is one of the countries where the use of photography has been most vibrant over the past 180 years; photographic practices there achieved a unique autonomy very early on, invigorated by outside influences. This Photo Poche volume offers an overview based on scattered but significant publications, as well as on the recent consolidation of artists’ archives.
The Mexican population, in both cities and the countryside, seems to have a taste for photographic documentation of social life or
. The German Hugo Brehme promoted a systematic documentation of the country and its traditions, upon which was subsequently based a
more poetic approach—that of Manuel Alvarez Bravo—or a socially engaged one—that of Tina Modotti—alongside a unique artistic practice endorsed by the French Surrealists. Photojournalism found a local expression there that benefited from media support, and since the 1960s, women photographers have played a remarkable role in the development of a photographic poetics—less event-driven—capable of capturing the syncretic imaginaries of this country. Within the apparent heterogeneity unique to Mexico, disparate indigenous traditions unearthed by archaeology (Maya, Aztec, etc.), colonial imperatives (Catholicism), and revolutionary ones (the establishment of military and police powers), as well as social particularities (death cults, lucha libre…).
Published by Actes Sud, 2018
12.50 cm 19.00 cm, 208 pages, like new
ISBN 978-2-7427-9792-9
Mexico is one of the countries where the use of photography has been most vibrant over the past 180 years; photographic practices there achieved a unique autonomy very early on, invigorated by outside influences. This Photo Poche volume offers an overview based on scattered but significant publications, as well as on the recent consolidation of artists’ archives.
The Mexican population, in both cities and the countryside, seems to have a taste for photographic documentation of social life or
. The German Hugo Brehme promoted a systematic documentation of the country and its traditions, upon which was subsequently based a
more poetic approach—that of Manuel Alvarez Bravo—or a socially engaged one—that of Tina Modotti—alongside a unique artistic practice endorsed by the French Surrealists. Photojournalism found a local expression there that benefited from media support, and since the 1960s, women photographers have played a remarkable role in the development of a photographic poetics—less event-driven—capable of capturing the syncretic imaginaries of this country. Within the apparent heterogeneity unique to Mexico, disparate indigenous traditions unearthed by archaeology (Maya, Aztec, etc.), colonial imperatives (Catholicism), and revolutionary ones (the establishment of military and police powers), as well as social particularities (death cults, lucha libre…).
Published by Actes Sud, 2018
12.50 cm 19.00 cm, 208 pages, like new
ISBN 978-2-7427-9792-9
