Main entry:

Billeter, Erika, 1927-2011.

Title & Author:

A song to reality : Latin American photography, 1860-1993 / Erika Billeter ; [English translation, Richard Lewis Rees].

Publication:

Barcelona : Lunwerg ; New York, N.Y. : Available through D.A.P., ©1998.

Description:

395 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-395).
The birth of an iconography -- Marc Ferrez : the world as a photographic image -- A passion : images of cities -- the studio : smile, please -- the exquisite folklore of Hugo Brehme -- Cuzco, the sacred place -- Augustín Casasola : the Mexican Revolution -- Mexico achieves modernity : Manuel Álvarez Bravo -- The gaze of women -- The witness of reality -- Cuba : the Revolution transforms photography -- The portrait tradition of Buenos Aires -- Portraits of cities -- The second discovery of the landscape -- The lost paradise -- The photographic essay -- At the end, a new beginning.

Summary:

"Erika Billeter has produced a book that shows not only the history and reality of Latin American photography until the 1990s, but also the historical and social evolution of the continent. Through the more than three hundred photographs included in the work, the themes that have constituted the central motif of Latin American photography are developed: the exaltation of nature, the indigenous world and the portrait tradition. In the book there is a large representation of authors, both those considered classic and prestigious contemporary authors." -Taken from publisher's website.

ISBN:

8477824908
9788477824909

Subject:

Photography, Artistic.
Photography Latin America History.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie Amérique latine Histoire.
art photography.
Photography
Latin America Pictorial works.
Amérique latine Ouvrages illustrés.
Latin America

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works
Photography, Artistic.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209102
Call No.: TR27.5 .B55 1998
Status: Available