
Photography and Memory in Mexico
Icons of Revolution
Andrea Noble(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 1. September 2010
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-7190-7842-2 (ISBN)
Description
Photography and memory in Mexico traces the 'life stories' of some of the famous photographic images made during the 1910 revolution, which have been repeatedly reproduced across a range of media in its aftermath. Which photographs have become icons of the revolution and why these particular images and not others? What is the relationship between photography and memory of the conflict? How do we construct a critical framework for addressing the issues raised by iconic photographs? Placing an emphasis on the life, afterlife and also the pre-life of those iconic photographs that haunt the post-revolutionary landscape, Andrea Noble approaches them as dynamic objects, where their rhetorical power is derived from a combination of their visual eloquence and their ability to coordinate patterns of identification with the memory of the revolution as a foundational event in Mexican history.
Richly-illustrated, this book will be of interest to all those interested in photography, memory studies, and Mexican cultural history. -- .
Richly-illustrated, this book will be of interest to all those interested in photography, memory studies, and Mexican cultural history. -- .
Reviews / Votes
Throughout the book, Noble's interpretive dynamism, structured as a photographic counter-memory, finds the image surplus of one historic moment displaced and repeated over time in others. Her close visual analyses uncover a structure whose 'feedback' and 'feed forward' challenge historical conventions by fastening a panoramic sweep to a visually discursive point of view. -- .More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
537 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-7842-2 (9780719078422)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Andrea Noble is Professor of Latin American Studies at Durham University -- .
Content
List of illustrations
Panoramas
1. Icons of revolution
2. History through photography
Close-ups
3. Photography at the end of an epoch
4. The presidential chair
5. The firing squad
6. Seeing women
7. The revolutionary morgue
8. Zapatistas in the city
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index -- .
Panoramas
1. Icons of revolution
2. History through photography
Close-ups
3. Photography at the end of an epoch
4. The presidential chair
5. The firing squad
6. Seeing women
7. The revolutionary morgue
8. Zapatistas in the city
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index -- .