Cámara Casasola
- Description:
- Director: Carlos Rodrigo Montes de Oca Country: Mexico Year: 2010. Historical photographs serve as an archive of powerful images that provide us with the narratives about the past. In the case of Mexico, the visual memory of the Revolution is strong due to the Casasola archive. It consists of over eight hundred thousand individual items. It was founded by Agustín and Miguel, who are considered to be the pioneers of photojournalism in Mexico. The emblematic moving images of revolutionaries such as Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa are also part of this collection. The documentary creates an impeccable narrative of the Mexican Revolution.
- Attribution:
- Debroise, Olivier, and Stella S. Rego. Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico. Austin, Tex: Univ. of Texas Press, 2001. Print.
- Date:
- 04-29-2020