Seeing Mexico Photographed The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Alvarez Bravo

Name: Seeing Mexico Photographed The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Alvarez Bravo
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ISBN: 9780300140927

ISBN-10: 0300140924

ISBN-13: 9780300140927

Edition: 2008

Authors: Leonard Folgarait

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This engrossing book presents the photographs of four historically engaged artists and explains what they reveal about the highly dramatic revolutionary and post-revolutionary period in Mexico from 1910 to 1935. The works of these photographers-American Walter H. Horne, Italian Tina Modotti, and Mexicans Agust'237;n V'237;ctorCasasola and Manuel '193;lvarez Bravo-are discussed not just as windows onto events but as artworks that offer both objective reporting and stylized expression. The twenty-five years covered in the book encompass some of the most convulsive developments in Mexico, from the violence and cataclysmic changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution to the immense struggles to…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Walter H. Horne and Agustin Victor Casasola: Still Body, Masses in Motion



Tina Modotti: To Serve with the Photographic Eye Wide Awake



Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photography about Photography


Notes


Bibliography


Photograph Credits


Index