National Camera: Photography and Mexico's Image Environment

by Roberto Tejada

Book Overview

In National Camera, Roberto Tejada offers a comprehensive study of Mexican photography from the early twentieth century to today, demonstrating how images have shaped identities in Mexico, the United States, and in the borderlands where the two nations and cultures intersect-a place Tejada calls the shared image environment.

The "problem" of photography in Mexico, Tejada shows, reveals cross-cultural episodes that are rife with contradictions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816660824
• ISBN13: 9780816660827
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"