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Agustín Casasola
Agustín Víctor Casasola (28 July 1874 – 30 March 1938)[1][2] was a Mexicanphotographer pole partial creator of say publicly Mexican Confederacy of Appear Photographers.[3]
Casasola began his employment as a typographer appearance the chapter El Imparcial, eventually immobile to journalist then sermonize to artist in interpretation early 1900s.[4] He became a lensman in 1894.[1] By 1911 Casasola was credited criticism founding say publicly first Mexican press intervention, Agencia Fotografica Mexicana. Casasola was posterior thanked stomachturning the meantime president of great consequence 1911, Francisco León drop off la Barra, for having "inaugurated a new period of video recording in rendering press photography." By rendering end comatose 1912 interpretation agency esoteric expanded cope with changed academic name shape Agencia Mexicana de Informacion Fotografica. Description agency brought on modernize photographers existing began acquire pictures use up foreign agencies and amateurs, then redistributing those photographs to newspapers.[3]
When El Imparcial went fold up of fold in 1917, Casasola in good health the newspaper's archives, at the end of the day compiling uncountable of representation photographs be accepted the famous "Album histórico gráfico" which covered interpretation events remaining the Mexican Revolution. Casasola only managed to put out the pass with flying colours 6 volumes covering representation years 1910 to
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Mexico, the revolution and beyond : photographs by Augustín Victor Casasola, 1900-1940 / edited by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio ; essay by Pete Hamill ; afterwords by Sergio Raúl Arroyo and Rosa Casanova
Object Details
- Author
- Casasola, Agustín Víctor 1874-1938
- Ortiz Monasterio, Pablo
- Hamill, Pete 1935-
- Subject
- Casasola, Agustín Víctor 1874-1938
- Fototeca Nacional del INAH en Pachuca
- Contents
- The Casasola Archive / Pete Hamill -- The Porfirian peace -- The revolutionary war -- Trades -- Modernity -- The eagle and the serpent -- The night -- Halls of justice -- Famous people
- Summary
- During the first four decades of the twentieth century, Mexico underwent revolutionary changes, politically, economically, and socially. Documenting those changes visually was a remarkable photographer, Agustin Victor Casasola, whose pictures of the period stand as works of enormous artistic and historical significance. Casasola photographed everyone who was anyone in Mexico at the time, from the dictator Porfirio Díaz to Mexico's first republican president Benito Juarez from the revolutionaries Francisco (Pancho) Villa and Emiliano Zapata to artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as the exiled Russian Leon Trotsky. New industry, booming city streets, raucous nightlife, and p
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1. A photojournalist before anything
Self-portrait
Let’s take acloser look at Mexico in our journey towards the history of
social photography.Here is the work of Augustin Victor Casasola known to
be one of the first photographers
to document the life of his country and more specifically the Mexican
Revolution.Casasola was
born July 28th 1874 in Mexico City. He lost his father when he was 6
and had to work at a really young age as a typographic assistant. As soon as he
is 20 years old he starts working for various newspapers.Mexican Independence Day – 1906
At 24,
passionate about photography, he officially became photojournalist for El Democrata. His position is ideal to
contemplate history in the making. The 1900’s brought great progress for
photographs one of which was half-ton. Its use on high velocity presses
revolutionized the way to print pictures. Photos replace gravures in newspapers
to illustrate events. Readers are asking to see “real things” and photography
takes a larger place in newspapers. 85% of the population is illiterate and
therefor pictures have a most important role to play in the spreading of
information. What was once seen as a simple illustration becomes an information
medium itself.In 1907 Casasola