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mexico the revolution and beyond

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Mexico has a great history of producing world class photographers. Along with Hugo Brehme, Augustin Victor Casasola is one of the founders of that tradition. His photographs of the Mexican Revolution have passed into the realm of iconic. Casasola is so esteemed that the Mexican Government purchased all of his negatives and used them as the foundation of a National Photographic Archive.

In 1912, Augustin and his brother Miguel started the Casasola Photo Agency. They hired a number of photographers around the country to take pictures of the great events of the day. Along with portraits of the important people of the time, there are many beautiful photographs of revolutionary soldiers, peasants, urban workers and criminals. A quarter of books photographs are of the Revolution. The rest show Mexico as it was entering into the Modern Age. I especially loved his photographs of Mexico's Jazz Age.

This is a high quality publication produced by Aperture. It is hardback book and is 13" by 9.5" in dimension with 155 photographs. All the photographs were made with large format cameras and in turn the photographs are very clear and detailed. This is a great book for both photobook collectors and people interested in the history of Mexico. Highly recommended.

We saw this exhibit at the Museo del Bario in New York City and the photos are wonderful. Many were taken 90 years ago yet they are in beautiful condition and give a wonderful sense of history. The book does complete justice to the photos. Terrific size and detail. It is better than I expected.

A terrific introduction to the work of the relativly unknown [ outside of Mexico that is] photographer Augustin V. Casasola. Casasola ran a small commercial photographic studio in Mexico during the long turbulent years of the Mexican revolution. Although he generaly worked with various medium and large format cameras the work is often astonishingly modern, direct and immeadiate. Covering not only demonstrations, firing squads, battles and the rebel leader Emiliano Zapata, but also intimate portrayals of daily life; its all at a level to obliterate any distintion between photojournalism and 'art' photography. If only we had photographers like this covering todays news and events.

Contemporary Mexican history is definetely shaped by the events (Mexican Revolution and its impact on Mexican society) that took place in the early 20th century. Casasola could be considered the father of Mexican photojournalism. Along with many other photographers that followed his steps or worked under his wings, Agustin Victor Casasola left an invaluable visual legacy of Mexican history and the participants that took place on it (from the radical painter to the workers on the streets). I recommend this book for anyone interested on Mexican history.

Pete Hamill's articulate and insightful essay provides a very nicely informative context for the more than 150 images drawn from the photographic archives of the Cassola brothers, two early pioneers of photography who captured black-and-white visions of Mexico in the early twentieth century. Memorializing phases of that nation's transformation, revolution, and political change, Mexico: The Revolution And Beyond is a simply remarkable and visually soul-searching collection of immortal imagery which is strongly recommended for professional, academic, and community library History of Photography collections.

Recently I saw photo exhibit "Mexico The Revolution and Beyond". It was breath taking. Everyone who wants to get an insight of that time period in Mexico should see the exhibit if not the book is the next best thing. I fell in love with the photographer. The book is everything I got from the exhibit and more. Fabulous.

This book arrived in mint condition and as promised. We are very pleased with this purchase.

This is a terrific book of photos of the Mexican Revolution and other photos of historic Mexico. I highly recommend it.

Photographs are great! This was a wonderful show at the Barios Museum in New york. Please, if you have a chance go and see this exhibit.

Excellent collection of unusual historic black and white photo's for a reasonable price. Fine reproductions