Portrays exposure to Mexico and its people from works of five photographers
An exhibition portrays Mexico and the various facets of its population since the goal of five photographers, who presented in Montpellier (southern France) about 300 images of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Miguel Guerrero, Augustine Casasola, Lourdes Grobet, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio and Marco Antonio Cruz are the five photographers who cover the "huge pages" of Mexican history in the show "Mexico multiple" that will be seen until April 20 at the Pavillon Populaire de Montpellier, stressed today Efe those responsible.
The culture of the Huicholes, established in the Mexican Sierra Madre Occidental, is "leitmotiv" of the work, in black and white, from Guerrero, who lived immersed in the spiritual life of indigenous people for long periods.
Agustín Casasola (1874-1938), "the photographer of the revolution", the organizers chose a small selection of the hundreds of thousands of images from its archive, divided into two parts: the insurgencies and portraits of artists and intellectuals.
Lourdes Grobet captured through his lens the "wrestling", the sport so dear to Mexicans. The exhibition shows his "great heroes," as the famous "El Santo," the spectacle that surrounds it and its supporters in color photographs.
Ortiz Monasterio, meanwhile, is set in two Mexican volcanoes, Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, and mixing the images with contemporary painting of the nineteenth century under the sign of symbolism.
Finally, Marco Antonio Cruz presented a "very moving" under "the darkness inhabited," a collection of photographs of the blind in this country that Mexicans represent an important group of people, from more than 800,000 people.
Via El Universal
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