Mexican portraits
By: [edited by] Pablo Ortiz Monasterio ; [text by] Vesta Mónica Herrerías ; in collaboration with Alfonso Morales Carrillo ; [English translation, Peter Smith]
Contributors: Fundación Televisa
Edition: 1st Aperture ed.
Publisher: Aperture; Fundación Televisa
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York; México, D.F
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781597112277
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Portrait photography; History; Portrait photographers; Mexicans; Portraits; Artistic Photography; Photography
Work titles: A través de la máscara. English
Description: "In the history of photography in Mexico, portraiture is an important, established tradition, transcending styles, subjects and decades. Mexican Portraits includes more than 350 portraits from more than 80 well-known Mexican photographers, including Romualdo García, Agustín V. Casasola, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Enrique Metinides and Graciela Iturbide, among numerous others. Including both contemporary and classic works, mostly created in the years from the 1970s to the present, this diverse group of images has been selected by photographer and editor Pablo Ortiz Monsasterio, and presents an idiosyncratic and personal perspective on this particular genre. This volume, guided by his choices, explores the frontiers of portraiture from very different perspectives and associations. At the center of his wide-ranging selection are two distinct notions embedded in the history of the portrait: mask and metamorphosis. Organized into nine chapters, this beautifully illustrated book is a reflection on Mexican portraiture and identity, both individual and collective. Among the photographers represented here are Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Meyer, Agustín V. Casasola, Iñaki Bonillas, Maya Goded, Fernando Montiel Klimt, Gerardo Montiel Klimt, Guillermo Kahlo, Rodrigo Moya, Dr Lakra, Carla Verea, Stefan Ruiz, Melquiades Herrera, Ana Casas, Daniela Rosell, Francis Alÿs, Carlos Somonte, Miguel Calderón, Adolfo Patiño, Juan Guzmán and Eunice Adorno, Romualdo García and Enrique Metinides--an astonishing roll-call that itself articulates Mexican photographers' special relationship to portraiture"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Translation of: A través de la máscara.

"La gracia de los retratos antiguos / Enrique Fernández Ledesma ; prólogo del Ing. Marte R. Gómez" ([8] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.) inserted between p. [32] and 34 and "Generación F. Ehrenberg" (p. [8] : all ill. ; 17 cm.) inserted between p. [324] and [325].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-361).
Table of contents: title: The portrait's inheritance; title: The grace of old portraits; title: The pact with the photographer; title: Dreams of glory; title: Portrait of the tribe; title: Mask versus mullet; title: Metamorphosis; title: Simulations; title: The final portrait; title: Portrait in absentia; title: The cover-up; title: Corpus delicti; title: Cross-fertilization; title: Self-portraits.