Photographer Nacho Lopez was Mexico's Eugene Smith, fusing social commitment with searing imagery to dramatize the plight of the helpless, the poor, and the marginalized in the pages of glossy illustrated magazines. Even today, Lopez's photographs forcefully belie the picturesque exoticism that is invariably presented as the essence of Mexico.
Photographer Nacho Lopez was Mexico's Eugene Smith, fusing social commitment with searing imagery to dramatize the plight of the helpless, the poor, a...
In Looking for Mexico, a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico s modern visual culture from the U.S. invasion of 1847 to the present. Along the way, he illuminates the powerful role of photographs, films, illustrated magazines, and image-filled history books in the construction of national identity, showing how Mexicans have both made themselves and been made with the webs of significance spun by modern media. Central to Mraz s book is photography, which was distributed widely throughout Mexico in the form of cartes-de-visite,...
In Looking for Mexico, a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico s modern visual culture from the U...
In Looking for Mexico, a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico s modern visual culture from the U.S. invasion of 1847 to the present. Along the way, he illuminates the powerful role of photographs, films, illustrated magazines, and image-filled history books in the construction of national identity, showing how Mexicans have both made themselves and been made with the webs of significance spun by modern media. Central to Mraz s book is photography, which was distributed widely throughout Mexico in the form of cartes-de-visite,...
In Looking for Mexico, a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico s modern visual culture from the U...
