En un día como hoy--

Author Alejandra Mora explores a fascinating aspect of vernacular photography: the "amplifications in cloth", a long field research that started in the town of San Pablo Huitzo, Etla, Oaxaca, and spanned all the way into Mexico City with the intention of locating the creators of such unique portraits, who using new technologies have managed to satisfy customer demands. Illuminated images that satisfied the popular beauty conceptions of the body, hairstyles, fashion and jewelry, including the wedding photography.

1888, pt. 2, includes meteoroloical observations reported from the Observatorio Meteorológico-Magnético de Central Mexico, for the years 1877-1888.

Con un infinito respeto, Mariana registra las expresiones populares. Nada hay en ella del fotografo al acecho de las mas violentas emociones, no quiere que la envien a donde esta la accion. Su guerra es otra y es muy honda. A veces se siente culpable de no gozar la vida urbana, de no haberse dedicado a las contradicciones de la ciudad, el amontonamiento de seres humanos, el smog, la agresion, el desamor...

"Analyzes Camacho's campaign for the governorship of Puebla and his efforts to build alliances with workers, peasants, and the political and economic elites. Explores the links between local power and national politics during the Cárdenas years"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.