National camera : photography and Mexico's image environment
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R015706 Ned. Fotomuseum $T TEJADA.R 2009
TitleNational camera : photography and Mexico's image environment
Author
Photographer
Place of publicationMinneapolis
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
Year of publication2009
Pagination214 p.
Illustrationsb&w
Dimensions26 x 18 cm.
MaterialTekstboek
Document TypeBook
ISBN9780816660810081666081697808166608270816660824
External document
Bibliographic NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-202) and index.
SubjectRepresentatie en fotografie
Geographical keywordMexico
Abstract
We cite from the cover:
"In National Camera, Roberto Tejada offers a comprehensive study of Mexican photography from the early twentieth century to today, demonstrating how images have shaped identities in Mexico, the United States, and in the borderlands where the two nations and cultures intersect — a place Tejada calls the shared image environment."
"The "problem" of photography in Mexico, Tejada shows, reveals cross-cultural episodes that are rife with contradictions, especially in the complex terms of cultural and sexual difference. Analyzing such topics as territory, sexuality, and social and ethnic relations in image making, Tejada traces the connective thread that photography has provided between Mexican and U.S. American intellectual and cultural production and, in doing so, defines both nations."
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CONTENTS :
0. Itinerary: Travels in the image environment --
1. Tenures of land and light: Casasola, revolution, and archive --
2. Experiment in related form: Weston, Modotti, and the aims of desire --
3. Metropolitan matters: Álvarez Bravo's Mexico City --
4. For history, posterity, and art: the borderline claims of Boystown.
Notes / Bibliography / Index.
"In National Camera, Roberto Tejada offers a comprehensive study of Mexican photography from the early twentieth century to today, demonstrating how images have shaped identities in Mexico, the United States, and in the borderlands where the two nations and cultures intersect — a place Tejada calls the shared image environment."
"The "problem" of photography in Mexico, Tejada shows, reveals cross-cultural episodes that are rife with contradictions, especially in the complex terms of cultural and sexual difference. Analyzing such topics as territory, sexuality, and social and ethnic relations in image making, Tejada traces the connective thread that photography has provided between Mexican and U.S. American intellectual and cultural production and, in doing so, defines both nations."
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CONTENTS :
0. Itinerary: Travels in the image environment --
1. Tenures of land and light: Casasola, revolution, and archive --
2. Experiment in related form: Weston, Modotti, and the aims of desire --
3. Metropolitan matters: Álvarez Bravo's Mexico City --
4. For history, posterity, and art: the borderline claims of Boystown.
Notes / Bibliography / Index.
| Copy number | R015706 |
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| Shelf mark | $T TEJADA.R 2009 |