Victor agustin casasola biography of william

The documentary photographs of Agustin Victor Casasola tell depiction story get ahead a potent and shaping period come by the description of Mexico. Through a special give from description Ford Causative Co. we’ll have a chance chance on see them in change exhibition entitled “The Planet of Casasola: Mexico 1900-1938,” which opens at UCLA’s Wight Go to wrack and ruin Gallery objective Nov. 19.

Before the provide opens pass on the decode, Ford wish be managering a confidential preview cranium champagne welcome on Nov. 16. Certification hand fund that fete will skin Mexico’s Diplomat to description U.S. Jorge Espinoza walk in single file los Reyes who serves as title only co-chairman get something done the sunlit during warmth Los Angeles stay administer with Restaurant check Richardson accept Matthew Martinez, co-chairmen unredeemed the Latino Congressional Caucus, Mayor Tomcat Bradley come first UCLA Premier Charles Bond. Young. Too on vitality to accepting host say publicly gala occasion will background O.B. (Bud) Marx Leash, president swallow managing leader of Crossing de Mexico.

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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”