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Nacho Lopez, Mexican Photographer
John Mraz
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Paperback. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AGB; AJCR; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 177 x 15. Weight in Grams: 484.
Reveals the career of an influential but under-appreciated photojournalist
Photographer Nacho López was Mexico’s Eugene Smith, fusing social commitment with searing imagery to dramatize the plight of the helpless, the poor, and the marginalized in the pages of glossy illustrated magazines. Even today, López’s photographs forcefully belie the picturesque exoticism that is invariably presented as the essence of Mexico.
In Nacho López, Mexican Photographer, John Mraz offers the first full-length study in English of this influential photojournalist and provides a close visual analysis of more than fifty of López’s most important photographs. Mraz first sets López’s work in the historical and ... Read moreMraz contrasts the photos López took with those that were selected by his editors for publication. He also compares López’s images with his theories about documentary photography, and considers López’s photographs alongside the work of Robert Capa, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Sebastião Salgado. López’s imagery is further analyzed in relation to the Mexican Golden Age cinema inspired by Sergei Eisenstein, the pioneering digital imagery of Pedro Meyer, and the work of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, who Mraz provocatively argues was the first Mexican photographer to take an anti-picturesque stance. The definitive English-language assessment of Nacho López’s career, this volume also explores such broader topics as the nature of the photographic essay and the role of the media in effecting social change. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Visible Evidence
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816640485
SKU
V9780816640485
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About John Mraz
John Mraz is research professor at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades at the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.
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