Tina Modotti Photographs1 review Sarah Lowe Harry N. Abrams, 1998 A Revised and Beautiful View of Tina Modotti's Photography Review Summary: Tina Modotti achieved a remarkable level of accomplishment in a photographic career that spanned merely 7 years and 250 images. Her work captures many of the best elements of the compositional skills of Edward Weston, her mentor and lover, while adding a heart-felt attraction for ...             Helen Levitt: Mexico City James Oles W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 American photographer Helen Levitt--renowned for her honest, compelling shots of early industrial New York City--spent a good part of 1941 photographing Mexico City. The slices of life depicted in this collection of her work present a vision of a city becoming . Levitt focuses her acutely urban sensibilities on a city whose increased industrialization after World War Two brought tremendous ...             Agustin V. Gasasola (Photo Poche) Poche Photo, Agustin-Victor Casasola Centre D/L Photograp, 1993             Lola Alvarez Bravo: In Her Own Light (The Archive, 31)1 review Olivier Debroise Center for Creative Photography, 1994 Composition deluxe If the visual arts of Mexico stimulate you than you will find these photographs to be like taking a journey through time and space across the land. Lola Alvarez Bravo, the wife of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, arguably Mexico's finest photographer, was a magnificent photographer in her own right. She ...             Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories (Aperture, Vol 147) Aperture, 1997 Manuel Alvarez Bravo began photographing in 1924, during Mexico's thriving post-revolutionary artistic renaissance. His influences, from indigenous cultures to contemporary European trends, combined through his artistry to form a unique, transcendent vision rooted in the iconography of his country. While his early work embraced Mexico's urban realities, its peasants and workers, and its ...             Uprooted: Braceros in the Hermanos Mayo's Lens John Mraz, Jaime Velez Storey Arte Publico Press, 1996 From the Mayo Brothers archive in Mexico's Secretariate of Foreign Relations, the photos represent one of the most controversial cross-cultural subjects of their time: the Braceros Program. This landmark coffee table book offers 83 historical photos and an introduction documenting their importance.             Juan Rulfo's Mexico Smithsonian, 2002 Juan Rulfo was one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth century. His 1955 novel Pedro Páramo is considered one of the foundational classics of magic realism, predating One Hundred Years of Solitude by more than a decade. Lesser known are his haunting photographs of Mexico, which exhibit remarkable parallels to his prose. The photographs, mainly taken between 1945 and 1955, do not ...             Images of the Spirit2 reviews Aperture, 1996 "We-are-others" + Images of the spirit First of all lets begin by stating that the images in this book are profoundly beautiful, framed with an incredible eye, the subjects positioned for some remarkably,imaginative imagery and overall some of the most moving photographs I have ever seen. Graciela Iturbide comes to her success with the ...             MARTIN CHAMBI PB4 reviews Llosa Mv Smithsonian, 1993 Chambi Captures The Essence Of Cuzco + For those who care about photography and it s power + An impressive legacy of memory and pride + Sublime photos             Nacho Lopez, Mexican Photographer (Visible Evidence, V. 14) John Mraz University of Minnesota Press, 2003 Photographer Nacho López was Mexico's Eugene Smith, fusing social commitment with searing imagery to dramatize the plight of the helpless, the poor, and the marginalized in the pages of glossy illustrated magazines. Even today, López's photographs forcefully belie the picturesque exoticism that is invariably presented as the essence of Mexico. In Nacho López, Mexican Photographer, John Mraz ...             Flor Garduno: Witnesses Of Time1 review Aperture, 2001 Sentinels to the Passage of Time Flor Garduno is a mystical artist. She travels about the Americas pausing to observe and conserve rituals of the sacred and profane nature as embodied in the native peoples of Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. At times her photographs may seem stark or frozen in time or posed to ...             Henri Cartier-Bresson: Mexican Notebooks 1934-19643 reviews Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cartier-Bresson Bresson Thames & Hudson, 1996 Mexico uncovered + Inspirational, but limited + an honest and delicate look at mexico There is a consistant light which runs through Cartier-Bresson's work. It is the late afternoon light or the early morning glow, that enters his leica. We see it in the streets, behind the waitress in the Mexican bar as she leans unknowingly towards Cartier-Bresson's lens. It's surrounded by this ...             Sebastiao Salgado: An Uncertain Grace Robert Ryman Aperture, 2005 An Uncertain Grace represents Salgado's journey through poor villages in the Andes, shanty communities of miners in the Brazilian jungle, and refugee camps in famine-stricken Ethiopia, Chad, and Mali. This book is one of the most important visual records of life in the twentieth century. SebastiNo Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in France, Germany, Holland, ...             Luis Gonzalez Palma: Poems of Sorrow2 reviews John Wood Arena, 1999 Soulfelt and Honest + Utterly compelling Luis Gonzalez Palma is a true artist with a beautiful sense of the people of his country. His work captures the heartbreak and passion that is Guatemalan indio culture and brings it into reality by using fantastical images and old time sepia toned style. One of the most amazing photo books I've ...             Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland1 review Miguel A. Gandert, Ramon Gutierrez, ... Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000 Powerful images of archetype, myth, and heritage! My 28-year residency in New Mexico ended with my recent move to California. Viewing Miguel Gandert's photographs opened the floodgates of memory in ways I had not anticipated. Gandert's images carry the viewer into the most important dimension of ritual: the experiential element. Witnessing these ...             The Edge of Time: Photographs of Mexico by Mariana Yampolsky (Southwestern & Mexican Photography Series, ...3 reviews Mariana Yampolsky University of Texas Press, 1998 Black and white photographs of people and customs of Mexico. + Book design award winner + Extraordinary photographs Superb black and white photographs by a premier photographer, displaying the lives of ordinary people and the native customs of various parts of Mexico. A real bargain at the price.             Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Masters of Photography (Aperture Masters of Photography)3 reviews A. D. Coleman Aperture, 1997 A beautifully printed small selection of Bravo's work. This small book contains wonderfully printed samples of a great photographer's work. Any selection not done by the artist reflects a certain bias, but this collection has a very neutral one, and the book flows quite nicely. Coleman's essay at the beginning has been printed numerous times and ...             Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Years Sarah Lowe Merrell, 2004 Tina Modotti and Edward Weston travelled to Mexico in 1923 at the start of an extraordinary period of artistic creativity that became known as the Mexican Renaissance. Although often perceived as being principally embodied by the politically motivated work of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and JosŽ Clemente Orozco, the Mexican Renaissance was shaped by the contribution of dozens of ...             Chiapas: The End of Silence / El fin del silencio5 reviews Aperture, 1998 an exquisite, detailed summary of contemporary Chiapas + Beautiful and Meaningful Photographs + These pictures are incredible. + an exquisite, detailed summary of contemporary Chiapas + Fotos of beauty, tragedy, and humor in Chiapas             Martin Chambi (55 (Series).) Amanda Hopkinson Phaidon Press, 2001 The 55 Series This is one of the most unique monograph series in the history of photography! The 55 Series represents the work of many of photography s most important figures. Each book contains 55 of the photographer s key works, presented chronologically and through them tells the photographer s own story. These books are small, but surprisingly rich in content and reproduction quality. They ...