Cover of De tu piel espejo

Book 2019

De tu piel espejo

Publisher
Asociación Cultural El Estanquillo, Museo del Estanquillo
Language
Spanish
Published
2019
  • Portrait photography
  • History
  • Commercial photography
  • Portrait photographers
  • Mexicans
  • Portraits
  • Artistic Photography

A panorama about the uses and representations of the commercial portrait in Mexico, through a collection of vintage studio photographs made from 1860 until the end of the Porfriato (1910), comprising a wide selection of images and objects. Some series include little-known portraits presented for the first time as well as the series of portraits of historic personages, musicians, actors and actresses, intellectuals, popular characters and Mexican celebrities, among others.