Mexican Portraits
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In the history of photography in Mexico, portraiture is an important, established tradition, transcending styles, subjects and decades. Mexican Portraits includes more than 350 portraits from more than 80 well-known Mexican photographers, including Romualdo García, Agustín V. Casasola, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Enrique Metinides and Graciela Iturbide, among numerous others. Including both contemporary and classic works,…
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Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 356
Publication date: 2013-05-31
Measurements: 12 x 13.2 x 1.9 inches
ISBN: 9781597112277
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio is a photographer, curator, and editor who lives and works in Mexico City. In 1994 Monasterio founded the Centro de la Imagen, an important venue for the education, discussion, and promotion of photography in Mexico. He has served as an editor on various book projects, includin Mexico y IndÃgena, and the periodical Luna Córnea. Monasterio was also a founding editor of RÃo de Luz, a collection of twenty books published by El Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico City.
Vesta Mónica HerrerÃas has worked as a curator and researcher on various photography projects. She completed a doctoral thesis on the evolution of portraiture in Mexico under Philippe Dubois at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne- nouvelle. She currently runs the publication Serie Ve, which is dedicated to photographic essays.