Main entry:

Debroise, Olivier, author. aut

Title & Author:

Mexican suite : a history of photography in Mexico / by Olivier Debroise ; translated and revised in collaboration with the author by Stella de Sá Rego.

Edition:

First edition

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Hong Kong : C&C Offset Printing Co., Ltd.

Description:

ix, 291 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index.
PART ONE: Overture -- Histories of History -- Illustrated History -- The Latin American Colloquia -- Historical Images -- Those Vast Cemeteries of Images -- PART TWO: Ritornello -- Of the Miraculous "Imprint" and Other Illuminations -- Daguerreotypomania -- The Last Alchemist: Theodore Tiffereau -- PART THREE: Canon -- Technoloy at the Service of a New Class: Portraiture in Mexico -- The Creation of a Profession -- The Profession of Photographer's Studio -- An Art of Representation -- Prisoners and Prostitutes, Masters and Servants -- New Photographers, New Style -- A Profession in Crisis: Helios Magazine -- PART FOUR: Pastorale -- The Natural Landscape and the Sublime -- Hugo Brehme's Pitcuresque Mexico -- The Photographer's Paradiese -- The Cult of Landscape -- Pierre Verger: Mexico -- George Hoyningen-Huene: Mexican Heritage -- Eliot Porter: Mexican Celebrations -- Recuerdos de la Media Luna -- PART FIVE: Oratorio -- Landscape and the Culture of Progress -- Pal Rojti -- Inventories and Commemorations -- William Henery Jackson -- Abel Briquet and Charles B. Waite -- The Vogue for Sterographs --
PART SIX: Requiem -- The Lost Cities -- Desire Charnay and the AMerican Cities -- Alice Dixon and Mr. Le Plongeon -- La Commission Scientifique du Mexique -- Xlabpak: The Old Walls -- The Pyramid of the Sun -- Lura Gilpin: Solitary Photographer -- The Last Adventure: Armando Salas Portugal -- In the Archive of Professor Retus -- PART SEVEN: Capricho -- Vanishing Mexico -- Guillermo Kahlo: Colonial Churches -- PART EIGHT: Toccata -- Indian Woman ... Skin Nearly Black -- Mexicans: A Self Portrait -- Tipos Mexicanos: Albums of Mexican Popular Types -- The Tlachiquero -- Photography and Ethnology -- The Scientific Expeditions of Leon Diguet -- Fredrick Starr: Indians of Southern Mexico -- Carl Lumholtz's Unknown Mexico -- Summer W. Matteson -- Founding Fathers -- Paul Strand or the Creation of an Aesthetic -- Anton Bruehl -- Fritz Henle -- Luis Marquex: Mexican Folklore -- Agustin Jimenex and Ricardo Razetti -- For 25 Cents -- Women of Juchitan Graciela in Juchitan -- Graciela in Juchitan Detritus Federal -- Nuevas Grandezas Mexicanas -- Borders -- PART NINE: Counterpoint -- Daguerreotypists at War -- Francois Aubert and Company, Imperial Reporters -- Before the Revolution -- With or without Tripod: The Technical Revolution -- The Revolution -- The Profession of Photographer: Second Phase -- Agustin Victor Casasola -- Ezequil Alcarez Tostado Businessman -- Rotofoto: Visual Journalism and Nothig More -- Palpitacionoes de la vido nacional -- Days to Remember -- Nacho Lopes: Photojournalist -- PART TEN: Danzon -- PART ELEVEN: Fantasia -- Essays -- Emilio Amero -- Carlos Jurado and the Revelation of the Unicorn -- Montages -- Siqueiros, Renau, Kahlo -- Artifice
Also issued online.
In English translated from the Spanish.
Southeastern Library Association Southern Books Competition, Award of Honorable Mention, 2001

Summary:

"The history of photography in Mexico was a largely untold story until the 1994 publication of Olivier Debroise's Fuga Mexicana, un recorrido por la fotografia en Mexico. Based on ten years' research in public and private photographic archives in Mexico, the United States, Guatemala, and Europe, Fuga Mexicana provided the first comprehensive survey of Mexican photography from the advent of the daguerreotype in 1839 to the present."
"Now this publication is available in English as Mexican Suite. Olivier Debroise and Stella de Sa Rego have revised this edition to include more current material and explanatory notes for an audience less familiar with Mexican history. They have also eliminated some of the general history of photography and added more of the early history of photography in Mexico, as well as many new, previously unpublished images. The book is organized both chronologically and thematically, which allows viewer/readers to follow the evolution of major photographic genres and styles. Debroise also examines the role of photography in the development of modern Mexico and the influence of prominent foreign photographers such as Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
In its totality, Mexican Suite constitutes an extended essay on Mexican culture as a whole and on how this culture has been read, interpreted, and imagined."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0292716117 (alk. paper)
9780292716117 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Photography Mexico History.
Photographers Mexico.
Photographie Mexique Histoire.
Photographes Mexique.
Photographers
Photography
Mexico

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Debroise, Olivier. Fuga mexicana.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215746
Call No.: TR28 .D4 2001
Status: Available