Luis Cabrera

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...

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.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains video on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Tepotzotlán, biographical data on the expelled Jesuits, photographs of Tepotzotlán, México, and Bologna, Italy, along with videogames and interactive features--See back cover.

A three-volume scholarly history of Mexico from European discovery through the U.S.-Mexican war, by scholar-priest of Queretaro and Tamaulipas (1934-2001).