Title: Mexico: fotografia y revolución
Photographer(s): Various photographers
Writer(s): Mauricio Tenorio Trillo, Laura González, Claudia Canales, Marion Gautreau, Miguel Ángel Berumen
Designer(s): Miguel Ángel Palleiro
Publisher(s): Lunwerg, Barcelona,Spain / Fundacion Televisa, Mexico D.F., Mexico
Year: 2010
Print run:
Language(s): Spanish
Pages: 240
Size: 24,5 x 27,5 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:
Print: Spain
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Mexico, 1911-1921
ISBN: 9788487856164
One hundred years after the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution, the researcher seeks new perspectives for analysis and new themes for remembrance. This volume, the result of an interdisciplinary investigation into the photographs and photographers who commemorated the visual memory of that historical process, contrasts the images that were known to contemporaries of the events through the pages of the illustrated press with a selection of those that have long been forgotten and that today offer unpublished clues and suggestive glimpses to look at the Revolution with new eyes.
A search through dozens of public and private archives in Mexico and the United States, as well as a review of the publications that in various countries around the world gave an account of the events and protagonists that marked Mexican life between 1910 and 1921, allows us to glimpse angles, other faces and other issues of a gesture that changes incessantly in nuances and form, in the light of the course of history itself.
Beyond the significant contribution of the collection initiated by Agustín Víctor Casasola in the early years of the revolutionary movement, this volume seeks to recognise the historical and aesthetic value of many other unpublished or little-known images that circulated in various forms during the same period and which also influenced its perception and understanding.