Mexican Suite

Olivier Debroise is an art and cultural historian, critic, curator, novelist, and filmmaker who lives in Mexico City. Stella de Sá Rego is Archivist of Pictorial Collections at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico.

• Translator's Preface 1. Overture Histories of HistoryIllustrated History The Latin American Colloquia Historical Images Those Vast Cemeteries of Images 2. Ritornello Daguerreotypomania The Last Alchemist: Théodore Tiffereau 3. Canon Technology at the Service of a New Class: Portraiture in Mexico The Creation of a Profession The Profession of Photographer: First Phase In the Photographer's Studio An Art of Representation Prisoners and Prostitutes, Masters and Servants New Photographers, New Styles A Profession in Crisis: Helios Magazine 4. Pastorale The Natural Landscape and the Sublime Hugo Brehme's Picturesque Mexico The Photographer's Paradise The Cult of Landscape Pierre Verger: Mexico George Hoyningen-Huene: Mexican Heritage Eliot Porter: Mexican Celebrations Recuerdos de la Media Luna 5. Oratorio Landscape and the Culture of Progress Pál Rojti Inventories and Commemorations William Henry Jackson Abel Briquet and Charles B. Waite The Vogue for Stereographs 6. Requiem The Lost Cities Désiré Charnay and the American Cities Alice Dixon and Mr. Le Plongeon La Commission Scientifique du Mexique Xlabpak: The Old Walls The Pyramid of the Sun Laura Gilpin: Solitary Photographer The Last Adventurer: Armando Salas Portugal In the Archive of Professor Retus 7. CaprichoVanishing Mexico Guillermo Kahlo: Colonial Churches 8. ToccataIndian Woman . . . Skin Nearly Black Mexicans: A Self-Portrait Tipos mexicanos: Albums of Mexican Popular Types The Tlachiquero Photography and Ethnology The Scientific Expeditions of Léon Diguet Frederick Starr: Indians of Southern Mexico Carl Lumholtz's Unknown Mexico Sumner W. Matteson Founding Fathers Paul Strand or the Creation of an Aesthetic Anton Bruehl Fritz Henle Luis Márquez: Mexican Folklore Agustín Jiménez and Ricardo Razetti For 25 Cents . . . Women of Juchitán Graciela in Juchitán Detritus Federal Nuevas grandezas mexicanasn Borders 9. Counterpoint Daguerreotypists at War François Aubert and Company, Imperial Reporters Before the Revolution With or without Tripod: The Technical (R)evolution The Revolution The Profession of Photographer: Second Phase Agustín Víctor Casasola Ezequiel Alvarez Tostado, Businessman Rotofoto: Visual Journalism and Nothing More Palpitaciones de la vida nacional Days to Remember Nacho López: Photojournalist 10. Danzón11. Fantasía Essays Emilio Amero Carlos Jurado and the Revelation of the Unicorn Montages Siqueiros, Renau, Kahlo Artifice Notes Bibliography Index

"This book will become the most complete and useful English-language text on its subject, and will be the essential starting point for anyone wishing to incorporate Mexican material into a photographic survey course, to add photography to a course on Mexican culture, or to do more research in the field." --Martha A. Sandweiss, Associate Professor of American Studies and History, Amherst College