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[Héctor García portraits of Mexicans and scenes of Mexico City].
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Title:
[Héctor García portraits of Mexicans and scenes of Mexico City]Creator/Contributor:
García, Héctor, 1923-2012, creator, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Fotopress (Mexico City), Photographer.Abstract:
Informal photojournalistic portraits, and miscellaneous everyday scenes, chiefly taken in public spaces in Mexico City. Photographs
depict a broad cross-section of everyday persons, including barbers, diners in a cafeteria, pachucos, women in indigenous
attire, a shoe shiner, waitresses, musicians, mail carriers, a monumental sculptor, and a variety men and children on the
street, most of them poor. Includes one informal portrait of Luis Buñuel.
Date:
1955 (issued)Subject:
n-mx---Mexicans -- Portraits
Mexicains -- Portraits
Mexicans
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Photographs
Mexico -- Mexico City
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Backs of most prints bear stamp of photographer and his Mexico City agency: "Héctor García / Fotopress".
Backs of a few prints include descriptive annotations, in Spanish. Several are marked for cropping and/or other aspects of
reproduction for publication.
Purchase from Graph Books ; 2021.
Héctor García Cobo (August 23, 1923-June 2, 2012): prominent photographer and photojournalist based in Mexico City; documented
social classes, political activism, prominent cultural figures, etc.; studied under Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa.
Héctor García portraits of Mexicans and scenes of Mexico City, BANC PIC 2021.032, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Portraits.
Portraits-Mexico.
Physical Description:
photoprint
25 photographs in 2 folders : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 19 x 26 cm or smaller
Language:
Spanish