Looking for Mexico : modern visual culture and national identity
Texte imprimé
- Auteurs : Mraz John ;
- Editeurs : Durham [N.C.] Duke University Press ;
- Date d'édition : 2009
- ISBN : 978-0-8223-4429-2, 0-8223-4429-7, 978-0-8223-4443-8, 0-8223-4443-2
- Sujets : Caractère national mexicain, Nationalisme, Photographie, Médias, Arts
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv-343 p.), : Ill., couv. ill., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
Notes
Bibliogr. p. [309]-331. Index
Résumé
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, postcards, and illustrated magazines. Mraz analyzes the work of a broad range of photographers, including Guillermo Kahlo, Winfield Scott, Hugo Brehme, Agustin Victor Casasola, Tina Modotti, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Hector Garcia, Pedro Meyer, and the New Photojournalists. He also examines representations of Mexico's past in the country's influential picture histories: popular, large-format, multivolume series replete with thousands of photographs and an assortment of texts