Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781032313566 / Twarda / 2024 / 200 str.

Opis

The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity and to create art as a culturally, politically or racially marginalized person.

Spis treści

Part I: Art Milieux, Transnational Contexts 1. Women Within and Beyond the Boundaries of Photography in Twentieth-Century Mexico: Tina Modotti, Kati Horna, Mariana Yampolsky, and Elsa Medina 2. Modalities of Stillness in Mariana Yampolsky: Flow and Texture in the Interplay between her Taller de Gráfica Popular Engravings and her Architectural Photopoetry 3. Earth Images: Tina Modotti and Agrarian Radicalism in Mexico 4. TBD by Radmila Stefkova Part II: Photographing Corporeality 5. Lucha Libre and the Struggle for Mexican Masculinity: Lourdes Grobet’s Family Portraits 6. Pushing the Limits of Photography: The Early Work of Lourdes Grobet 7. Objects that Matter. The Photograph as an Object of Memory in Ana Victoria Jiménez’s Feminist Archive 8. Tina Modotti’s Liminal Space of Creation as Operator and Studium Part III: Graciela Iturbide, Perspectives on Human Modernity 9. La “Modernidad Intersubjetiva” en los Retratos e Instantáneas de Graciela Iturbide 10. Traces of a Mujer Moderna: Fluid Womanhood in Graciela Iturbide’s Photography 11. Transborder Bodies: Re-Thinking Graciela Iturbide’ Self Portraits Through a Post-Humanist Gaze of Human-Animal Relations Part IV: Framing Indigeneity 12. Creencias at the Crossroad of Traditions 13. A Record of Things Seen: The Photographs of Frida Hartz in Irma Pineda’s La flor que se llevó

O autorze

Julia R. Brown is Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University. She served as Associate Editor for the journal Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos from 2017–2020. Her research is concerned with Indigenous representation in Mexican visual cultures. She is a Fulbright-García Robles recipient.

Radmila Stefkova is an education technology professional and researches media and visual literature. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Spanish and Portuguese Review for three years and as a regular contributor to the cultural magazine Latin American Literature Today. 

Tamara R. Williams is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Executive Director of the Wang Center for Global Education at Pacific Lutheran University. Her area of specialization is the Latin American long poem.