Victor agustin casasola biography of william

The documentary photographs of Agustin Victor Casasola tell depiction story show evidence of a forceful and impressionable period follow the features of Mexico. Through a special unobstructed from interpretation Ford Locomote Co. we’ll have a chance be see them in place exhibition entitled “The Replica of Casasola: Mexico 1900-1938,” which opens at UCLA’s Wight Singular Gallery be of interest Nov. 19.

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William Randolph Hearst (b/w photo)

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Miguel Casasola in the dark room of his studio in Mexico City, 1925. Note the pistol in his belt

The Mexican Agustín Víctor Casasola, with the intermittent help of his brother Miguel, began to set up around 1900 one of the most important photographic archives for the history of a country. However, the international recognition of these almost 500,000 photos has not matched its importance. Born in 1874 and raised in the years of the Porfirio Díaz government, Agustín Casasola was a direct witness to all the adversities that led to modern Mexico, and breathed as nobody else the air of a country and a city that developed during the first third of the 20th century at a runaway pace.

During the government of Porfirio Díaz the city become full of fancy restaurants where
the aristocracy had access to goods from Europe and the United States. In the
pulquerías they drank the thick pulque distillated from agave.
El Vaseo, a downtown pulquería.

He soon abandoned his initial profession of typographer and became a “news-hunting” reporter. Since the moment when for the first time a camera fell into his hands (it seems this was in 1902) he did not cease to hunt for images and to reveal the flow of history. In his own words, he became “a slave of the moment”