Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity: Framing the Twentieth Century (Routledge Research in Gender and Art)

The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person. By choosing human subjects, spaces, and aesthetics excluded from the Lettered City, each of the photographers discussed in this volume produces a corpus of art that contests dominant narratives of social and cultural modernization in Mexico. Taken together, their work represents diverging and diverse notions of what is meant by Mexican modernity. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography, women's studies, and Mexican studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: Gendering the Gaze: Frame, Context, Collaboration 1. In and Around Photographic Portraits (or Portraiture?) 2. The Margins and Potential Horizons of Mexico’s Postrevolutionary Modernity in Four Photographs by Tina Modotti, Kati Horna, Mariana Yampolsky, and Elsa Medina PART II: Counter-Perspectives: Ideologies, Subjectivity, and Corporeality 3. Earth Images: Tina Modotti and Agrarian Radicalism in Mexico 4. Fundamental Considerations for Mariana Yampolsky’s Photography 5. Gaze as Mirror/Encountering the Other: On the Photographic Communication of Graciela Iturbide 6. Unsettling Hyper-Heteronormative Masculinity: Lourdes Grobet’s Family Portraits PART III: Re-Presenting Gender and Race 7. Solidarity and Witnessing in the Photographs of Marta Zarak 8. A Record of Things Seen: The Photographs of Frida Hartz in Irma Pineda’s Guie’ni Zebe/La flor que se llevó 9. Seeing and Feeling the 1990s: Phototextual Explorations by Maruch Sántiz Gómez and Xunka’ López Díaz 10. The Untold Story of Black Mexico: Uncovering the Identity of the Afro-Descendant Woman in the Photography of Koral Carballo and Mara Sánchez Renero Epilogue Index The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person. By choosing human subjects, spaces, and aesthetics excluded from the Lettered City, each of the photographers discussed in this volume produce a corpus of art which contest dominant narratives of social and cultural modernization in Mexico. Taken together, their work represents diverging and diverse notions of what is meant by Mexican modernity. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography, womens studies, and Mexican studies.