De tu piel espejo
Subtitle: un panorama del retrato en México, 1860-1910
By: textos y edución : Gustavo Amezága Heiras
Contributors: Museo del Estanquillo (Mexico City, Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Colecciones Carlos Monsiváis; Colecciones Carlos Monsiváis
Publisher: Asociación Cultural El Estanquillo, Museo del Estanquillo
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9786079840310
Subjects: Portrait photography; History; Commercial photography; Portrait photographers; Mexicans; Portraits; Artistic Photography
Other titles: Panorama del retrato en México, 1860-1910; Your skin a mirror :
Description: A panorama about the uses and representations of the commercial portrait in Mexico, through a collection of vintage studio photographs made from 1860 until the end of the Porfriato (1910), comprising a wide selection of images and objects. Some series include little-known portraits presented for the first time as well as the series of portraits of historic personages, musicians, actors and actresses, intellectuals, popular characters and Mexican celebrities, among others.
Notes: English title from page [193]

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museo del Estanquillo in Mexico City, in 2019.

The Museo del Estanquillo Colecciones Carlos Monsiváis presents the exhibition "Your skin a mirror: panorama of portraiture in Mexico, 1860-1910ʺ as part of the 180-anniversary celebration of the daguerreotypeœs arrival in Mexicoʺ --Page 195.

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Introducción; title: El prodigioso efecto de ser y de no estar; title: El hechizo de la fijeza de los rasgos amados; title: Retrato y memoria; title: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano y los protagonistas de la escena; title: Tres hitos de la patria mexicana: Hidalgo, Juárez y Diaz; title: Mexicanos existosos y el músico Encarnación Payén y los fotógrafos Manuel y Felipe Torres; title: Ausencia y evocación; title: Selección de obra; title: English version.