Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico Book

	Translator's Preface	ix
1.	Overture	3
	Histories of History	4
	Illustrated History	6
	The Latin American Colloquia	7
	Historical Images	10
	Those Vast Cemeteries of Images	12
2.	Ritornello	17
	Of the Miraculous "Imprint" and Other Illuminations	18
	Daguerreotypomania	18
	The Last Alchemist: Theodore Tiffereau	22
3.	Canon	25
	Technology at the Service of a New Class: Portraiture in Mexico	26
	The Creation of a Profession	28
	The Profession of Photographer: First Phase	31
	In the Photographer's Studio	34
	An Art of Representation	36
	Prisoners and Prostitutes, Masters and Servants	41
	New Photographers, New Styles	48
	A Profession in Crisis: Helios Magazine	49
4.	Pastorale	55
	The Natural Landscape and the Sublime	56
	Hugo Brehme's Picturesque Mexico	59
	The Photographer's Paradise	62
	The Cult of Landscape	65
	Pierre Verger: Mexico	67
	George Hoyningen-Huene: Mexican Heritage	68
	Eliot Porter: Mexican Celebrations	68
	Recuerdos de la Media Luna	70
5.	Oratorio	73
	Landscape and the Culture of Progress	74
	Pal Rojti	74
	Inventories and Commemorations	76
	William Henry Jackson	76
	Abel Briquet and Charles B. Waite	79
	The Vogue for Stereographs	83
6.	Requiem	87
	The Lost Cities	88
	Desire Charnay and the American Cities	88
	Alice Dixon and Mr. Le Plongeon	91
	La Commission Scientifique du Mexique	92
	Xlabpak: The Old Walls	94
	The Pyramid of the Sun	97
	Laura Gilpin: Solitary Photographer	101
	The Last Adventurer: Armando Salas Portugal	103
	In the Archive of Professor Retus	105
7.	Capricho	107
	Vanishing Mexico	108
	Guillermo Kahlo: Colonial Churches	109
8.	Toccata	113
	Indian Woman ... Skin Nearly Black	114
	Mexicans: A Self-Portrait	116
	Tipos mexicanos: Albums of Mexican Popular Types	120
	The Tlachiquero	120
	Photography and Ethnology	125
	The Scientific Expeditions of Leon Diguet	126
	Frederick Starr: Indians of Southern Mexico	128
	Carl Lumholtz's Unknown Mexico	129
	Sumner W. Matteson	130
	Founding Fathers	131
	Paul Strand or the Creation of an Aesthetic	134
	Anton Bruehl	138
	Fritz Henle	139
	Luis Marquez: Mexican Folklore	139
	Agustin Jimenez and Ricardo Razetti	141
	For 25 Cents...	142
	Women of Juchitan	146
	Graciela in Juchitan	150
	Detritus Federal	152
	Nuevas grandezas mexicanas	153
	Borders	155
9.	Counterpoint	163
	Daguerreotypists at War	164
	Francois Aubert and Company, Imperial Reporters	168
	Before the Revolution	170
	With or without Tripod: The Technical (R)evolution	173
	The Revolution	174
	The Profession of Photographer: Second Phase	182
	Agustin Victor Casasola	184
	Ezequiel Alvarez Tostado, Businessman	187
	Rotofoto: Visual Journalism and Nothing More	188
	Palpitaciones de la vida nacional	191
	Days to Remember	195
	Nacho Lopez: Photojournalist	197
10.	Danzon	201
11.	Fantasia	233
	Essays	234
	Emilio Amero	235
	Carlos Jurado and the Revelation of the Unicorn	237
	Montages	237
	Siqueiros, Renau, Kahlo	241
	Artifice	243
	Notes	247
	Bibliography	263
	Index	277