The Mexican Revolution of 1910ndash;1920 is among the worldrsquo;s most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera; it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastesmdash;commercial and amateur; national and international. Many images of the Revolution remain iconic to this daymdash;Francisco Villa galloping toward the camera; Villa lolling in the presidential chair next to Emiliano Zapata; and Zapata standing stolidly in charro raiment with a carbine in one hand and the other hand on a sword; to mention only a few. But the identities of those who created the thousands of extant images of the Mexican Revolution; and what their purposes were; remain a huge puzzle because photographers constantly plagiarized each otherrsquo;s images. In this pathfinding book; acclaimed photography historian John Mraz carries out a monumental analysis of photographs produced during the Mexican Revolution; focusing primarily on those made by Mexicans; in order to discover who took the images and why; to what ends; with what intentions; and for whom. He explores how photographers expressed their commitments visually; what aesthetic strategies they employed; and which identifications and identities they forged. Mraz demonstrates that; contrary to the myth that Agustiacute;n Viacute;ctor Casasola was ldquo;the photographer of the Revolution;rdquo; there were many who covered the long civil war; including women. He shows that specific photographers can even be linked to the contending forces and reveals a pattern of commitment that has been little commented upon in previous studies (and completely unexplored in the photography of other revolutions).
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