Photographing the Mexican Revolution : commitments, testimonies, icons

Photographing the Mexican Revolution : commitments, testimonies, icons / John Mraz.

<P>The Mexican Revolution of 1910?1920 is among the world?s most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes?commercial and amateur, national...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mraz, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
Subjects:
1910-1920
Photography > Mexico > History.
Historiography and photography > Mexico.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
PHOTOGRAPHY / History
Historiography and photography
Photography
Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920 > Photography.
Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920 > Pictorial works.
Mexico
Electronic books.
History
Pictorial works
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Table of Contents:
  • The Porfiriato : from the studio to the street
  • Representing the revolution
  • The myth of the casasolas
  • Learning to photograph war
  • The Zapatista movement and southern cameras
  • Photographing the reaction
  • The caudillo of the cameras?
  • The advantages of photographing the constitutionalist movement
  • Epilogue : the icons of the Mexican Revolution.

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