Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments, Testimonies, Icons

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Название: Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments, Testimonies, Icons

Автор(ы): John Mraz

Издательство: University of Texas Press

Год: 2012

ISBN: 0292735804

Страниц: 327

Язык: English

Формат: PDF

Размер: 106 MB

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).