02665nam 2200589 a 450 991045684120332120200520144314.00-8166-6785-3(CKB)2550000000007340(EBL)485443(OCoLC)647886121(SSID)ssj0000340746(PQKBManifestationID)11248288(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340746(PQKBWorkID)10387300(PQKB)10421951(MiAaPQ)EBC485443(MdBmJHUP)muse39539(Au-PeEL)EBL485443(CaPaEBR)ebr10370376(CaONFJC)MIL526200(EXLCZ)99255000000000734020080908d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNational camera[electronic resource] photography and Mexico's image environment /Roberto TejadaMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20091 online resource (224 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6082-4 0-8166-6081-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-202) and index.Itinerary: Travels in the image environment -- Tenures of land and light: Casasola, revolution, and archive -- Experiment in related form: Weston, Modotti, and the aims of desire --Metropolitan matters: Álvarez Bravo's Mexico City -- For history, posterity, and art: the borderline claims of Boystown.In National Camera, Roberto Tejada offers a comprehensive study of Mexican photography from the early twentieth century to today, demonstrating how images have shaped identities in Mexico, the United States, and in the borderlands where the two nations and cultures intersect-a place Tejada calls the shared image environment.The "problem" of photography in Mexico, Tejada shows, reveals cross-cultural episodes that are rife with contradictions, especially in the complex terms of cultural and sexual difference. Analyzing such topics as territory, sexuality, and social and ethnic relations in imagPhotographyMexicoHistoryPhotographySocial aspectsMexicoMexicoHistoryPictorial worksElectronic books.PhotographyHistory.PhotographySocial aspects770.972Tejada Roberto956202MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456841203321National camera2475215UNINA