Photographing the Mexican Revolution - Commitments, Testimonies, Icons

Klappentext With almost 200 photographs, many never before published, and an authoritative text that delves into the motivations and aesthetics of the photographers who took them, this is the most ambitious and historically accurate visual record of the Mexican Revol Zusammenfassung With almost 200 photographs, many never before published, and an authoritative text that delves into the motivations and aesthetics of the photographers who took them, this is the most ambitious and historically accurate visual record of the Mexican Revolution Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Porfiriato: From the Studio to the StreetChapter 2. Representing the RevolutionChapter 3. The Myth of the CasasolasChapter 4. Learning to Photograph WarChapter 5. The Zapatista Movement and Southern CamerasChapter 6. Photographing the ReactionChapter 7. The Caudillo of the Cameras?Chapter 8. The Advantages of Photographing the Constitutionalist MovementEpilogue: The Icons of the Mexican RevolutionNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: John Mraz
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2012
• EAN: 9780292735804
• ISBN: 978-0-292-73580-4
• No. of pages: 327
• Series: The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere; The William and Bette Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere; William and Bettye Nowlin Seri; The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere; William and Bettye Nowlin Seri; The William and Bettye Nowlin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Fotografie, Amerikanische Geschichte, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, HISTORY / Revolutionary, History - General History, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico