Book description
The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 is among the world's most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes-commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of the Revolution remain iconic to this…
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Having read The Winds that Swept Mexico and seen the amazing photographs in that book, you’ll want to know more about the photographers who risked their lives to accompany Mexican troops in battle and in haphazard camps waiting for something to happen.
This book includes many photographs, but focusses on the history of the Revolution as shown in those photographs, and the processes of photography itself: how photographers worked in the early twentieth century in the midst of war, and how their photographs were collected and published as the Revolution raged on.
John Mraz is an excellent “visual historian.” I…
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