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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 wellknown 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 in conjunction with curator Vesta Mónica Herrerías and presents an idiosyncratic and personal perspective on this particular genre Mexican Portraits explores the frontiers of portraiture from very different perspectives and associations At the center of his wideranging 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 Metinidesan astonishing rollcall that itself articulates Mexican photographers special relationship to portraiture
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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 wellknown 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 in conjunction with curator Vesta Mónica Herrerías and presents an idiosyncratic and personal perspective on this particular genre Mexican Portraits explores the frontiers of portraiture from very different perspectives and associations At the center of his wideranging 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 Metinidesan astonishing rollcall that itself articulates Mexican photographers special relationship to portraiture
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A biography of the Mexican woman painter discussing her work and its international reputation her political ties and her relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera
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Las Vegas New Mexico is the subject and muse of this provocative case study of place exploring its history and geography nature and character through explorations of town and landscape and encounters with Las Vegans
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Las Vegas New Mexico is the subject and muse of this provocative case study of place exploring its history and geography nature and character through explorations of town and landscape and encounters with Las Vegans
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A digital copy of State Governors in the Mexican Revolution 19101952 Portraits in Conflict Courage and Corruption by Jurgen Buchenau Download is immediately available upon purchase
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The selfportraits of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are renowned for their dreamlike quality and emotional intensity Kahlo overcame injury and personal hardship to become one of the worlds most important female artists Celebrated by the surrealists in her own lifetime she has attained cultlike status both for her extraordinary art and her tempestuous life with her husband Diego Rivera Mexicos most prominent modern painterAn outstanding selection of paintings by Kahlo and Rivera forms the centerpiece of Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism This book showcases their work in the broader context of Mexican art giving a sense of the extraordinary vitality of cultural and artistic life in Mexico during the last century Essays touch on Kahlo and Riveras life together Kahlos selfportraits her extraordinary popularity politics and art in modern Mexico and the collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman Artists represented in addition to Kahlo and Rivera are Lola Alvarez Bravo Manuel Alvarez Bravo Leonora Carrington Rafael Cidoncha Miguel Covarrubias Jesús Reyes Ferreira Gunther Gerzso María Izquierdo Agustín Lazo Carlos Mérida Roberto Montenegro José Clemente Orozco Carl Orozco Romero David Alfaro Siqueiros Juan Soriano Rufino Tamayo Emilio Baz Viaud and Angel Zárraga
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When eminent photographer Stefan Ruiz stumbled across a treasure trove of old mug shots in a market in Mexico he began a mission to explore these timeworn photographs and drawings unique and surreal examples of portrait photography Here the pictures are beautifully published for the first time
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When eminent photographer Stefan Ruiz stumbled across a treasure trove of old mug shots in a market in Mexico he began a mission to explore these timeworn photographs and drawings unique and surreal examples of portrait photography Here the pictures are beautifully published for the first time
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Eyes to Fly With Portraits sold for 130.4 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Graciela Iturbide has found her inner theme photographing the Zapotec women of Juchitan and the Mixtec goat butchers of Oaxaca in the company of Nobel laureates and worldrenowned artists among mourners at Mexican cemeteries and Indian death houses Each image stands on its artistic own but each also tells something about the fascinating artist who made it In Eyes to Fly With which includes both iconic images and previously unpublished work Graciela Iturbide has assembled both a retrospective of her career and an introspective selfportraitin short an artists art bookIn the late 1960s the great Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo took Iturbide as his assistant It was a fond and fruitful apprenticeship but Iturbide eventually sought her own career because as she says in a conversation with the writer Fabienne Bradu I had to have influences but I also had to suppress them and achieve my own expression This book pulls together Iturbides most expressive work including select selfportraits Bradus interview which appears in both English and Spanish reveals the stories behind classic images such as Our Lady of the Iguanas Did she pose the iguanas on that womans head or was it photographic serendipity Bradu also draws out intimate reflections on photography Mexico M A Bravo famous friends indigenous mythology death and dreams so that turning the page to a viejo gazing at airborne gulls its impossible not to hear Iturbides words One day I dreamed a sentence over and over In my country I will plant birds Filled with such personal images and Iturbides own voice Eyes to Fly With is the private tour of the artists apartment that every admirer dreams of taking
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Discover information, advice, and prices for The Diary of Frida Kahlo, priced at 250.5 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Kahlos illustrated journal documenting the last ten years of her life reveals many new dimensions of the Mexican artist The journal covers the years 194454 and contains Kahlos thoughts poems and dreams and reflects the stormy relationship with her husband Diego Rivera Includes an introduction by Carlos Fuentes and a commentary by Sarah Lowe
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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter and today is one of the worlds favourite artists As a child she was badly affected by polio and later suffered a terrible accident that left her disabled and in pain Shortly after this accident Kahlo took up painting and through her surreal symbolic self portraits described the pain she suffered as well as the treatment of women and her sadness at not being able to have a child This book tells the story of Frida Kahlos life through her own artworks and shows how she came to create some of the most famous paintings in the world Learn about her difficult childhood her love affair with fellownbsppainter Diego Rivera and the lasting impact her surreal work had on the history of art in this book that brings her life to work
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The story of Victoriano Huerta and his role in the Mexican Revolution and his presidency
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Lucha Libre The Family Portraits sold for 196.63 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Lourdes Grobet has documented the spectacle of Mexican professional wrestling known as lucha libre free fighting for more than 25 years The only woman to have worked in such proximity to the sport Grobet has photographed the masked luchadores in many contextsand always in their signature disguises which practitioners have worn since 1942 when a wrestler named El Santo stepped into a Mexico City ring wearing a silver mask literally changing the face of the game forever The mask always a symbolically rich object in Mexican culture serves both as a retreat into anonymity and as an attack as a weapon with which to disconcert and terrorize the opponent Its visual appeal especially when set in scenarios outside the ring was quickly apparent to Grobet who describes El Santo as one of the teachers that most influenced me early on In Lucha Libre The Family Portraits Grobet shows the wrestlers with their mothers wives and girlfriends sitting for w
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Ramon Kelley b 1939 was born one of ten children in Cheyenne Wyoming in 1939 He has lived much of his life in Colorado and is of Mexican American heritage He worked as a ranch hand and served in the US Navy He began his art career in 1963 Although largely a selftaught artist he was influenced by Fechin Sargent and Boldini He received a scholarship to and studied at the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver He specializes in portraiture still life and landscape paintings After the birth of his first son Kelley began working in advertising and illustration to support his family all the while continuing to draw portraits in the evenings Kelley found a gallery in Taos New Mexico to represent his portraits which quickly allowed him to focus exclusively on producing fine art Since then he has never ceased experimenting to further his skill His portraits capture the inner glow and beauty of his subjects and reflect his deep understanding of sensitivity and human emotion He has been named a Master Pastelist by the Pastel Society of America which also elected him to the Pastel Hall of Fame He has won awards for his work at exhibitions including the Prix de West Invitational George Phippen Memorial American Watercolor Society Allied Artists of America National Academy of Western Art Southwestern Drawing Biennial and the Colorado and Wyoming Governors Invitational Kelley is now a member of the American Watercolor Society Allied Artists of America Knickerbocker Artists Oil Painters of America Pastel Society of America National Academy of Western Art and the Whiskey Painters of America
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Pescadero is a small town on the California Coast that grew from an adobe on a Mexican rancho in the late 1840s into a fashionable country resort enjoyed well into the 1920s today it is still a favorite weekend getaway for citydwellers from all over the San Francisco Bay Area as well as visitors from abroad Based on recorded conversations with descendants of the towns American pioneer families and photographs found in their family albums Portraits of Pescadero tells how this quiet rural community got started who started it and why it is still a very special place
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In Portrait of a Young Painter the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression injustice and social neglect that culminated in the student protests of 1968 Rendering Zúñigas coming of age on the margins of formal politics Vaughan depicts midcentury Mexico City as a culture of growing prosperity state largesse and a vibrant transnationallyinformed public life that produced a multifaceted youth movement brimming with creativity and criticism of convention In an analysis encompassing the mass media schools politics family sexuality neighborhoods and friendships she subtly invokes theories of discourse phenomenology and affect to examine the formation of Zúñigas persona in the decades leading up to 1968 By discussing the influences that shaped his worldview she historicizes the process of subject formation and shows how doing so offers new perspectives on the events of 1968
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Lourdes Grobet has documented the spectacle of Mexican professional wrestling known as lucha libre free fighting for more than 25 years The only woman to have worked in such proximity to the sport Grobet has photographed the masked luchadores in many contextsand always in their signature disguises which practitioners have worn since 1942 when a wrestler named El Santo stepped into a Mexico City ring wearing a silver mask literally changing the face of the game forever The mask always a symbolically rich object in Mexican culture serves both as a retreat into anonymity and as an attack as a weapon with which to disconcert and terrorize the opponent Its visual appeal especially when set in scenarios outside the ring was quickly apparent to Grobet who describes El Santo as one of the teachers that most influenced me early on In Lucha Libre The Family Portraits Grobet shows the wrestlers with their mothers wives and girlfriends sitting for w
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Celebrate the remarkable Rocky Mountains with this stunning photographic feast that takes us from the Canadian border and Glacier National Park to the Mexican border at Big Bend National Park Author photographer and legendary climber Ed Cooper brings Americas most iconic mountain range to life zeroing in with passion on its heart including the better known subranges He provides views of the most fascinating peaks in Idaho Montana Wyoming Colorado Nevada Utah Arizona New Mexico and Texas Soul of the Rockies focuses on those peaks ranges and rocks closest to the hearts of those in the climbing and mountaineering community It includes both uptodate altitudes and the most current geodetic data available making the peaks easy to locate With the best views the Rocky Mountains have to offer and cameo descriptions of various peaks all the glory of the Rockies shines through in this spectacular work
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Con Respeto Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and SchoolsAn Ethnographic Portrait presents a study of ten Mexican immigrant families with a special focus on mothers that describes how such families go about the business of surviving and learning to succeed in a new world Guadalupe Valdés examines what appears to be a lack of interest in education by Mexican parents and shows through extensive quotations and numerous anecdotes that these families are both rich and strong in family values and that they bring with them clear views of what constitutes success and failure The books conclusion questions the merit of typical family intervention programs designed to promote school success and suggests that these interventionsbecause they do not genuinely respect the values of diverse familiesmay have longterm negative consequences for children Con Respeto will be a valuable resource in graduate courses in foundations ethnographic research sociology and anthropology of education multicultural education and child development and will be of particular interest to professors and researchers of multicultural education bilingual education ethnographic research methods and sociology and anthropology of education
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