Ferrocarriles y vida económica en México, 1850-1950

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.

"Isabela Huffman is a precocious 8 1/2-year-old girl who can't seem to keep herself out of trouble on a visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, with her mother. She wants to be the president when she grows up. Or a ballerina. Or the president and a ballerina. She's dramatic. She sings on the bus, screams like a baby after putting chile powder on her fresh mango and convinces her mom to buy five pair of new shoes for a big family. No matter how many times her mom asks her to just sit down like a normal little girl, she just can't help getting up to take more pictures of her adventures. When will Isabela...

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Escritor y diplomático mexicano. Dedicó a partir de la juventud buena parte de su vida al periodismo, primero en Guadalajara y luego en la ciudad de México, y desempeñó altos cargos diplomáticos durante el gobierno de Porfirio Díaz, en el que ejerció como Subsecretario de Relaciones Exteriores y, más adelante, como ministro plenipotenciario en Guatemala. Hombre de inquietudes intelectuales, ocupó un puesto destacado en los foros culturales de México y trató los asuntos más variados. Dejó escritas algunas obras en el terreno de la filología.