Traces, Images and Fictions

Paul Strand in Mexico, 1932–34

Bibliographic Data

ID8870045
AuthorsJames Krippner (Haverford College, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume63
Issue3
Pages359-383
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/tam.2007.0025
OpenAlexW1560395122
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

This article analyzes an individual, a context, and an experience. The individual is the photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand, widely recognized and occasionally criticized as one of the great modernist photographers of the twentieth century. The context is Mexico from 1932-34. In these years, Strand worked in Mexico amidst state-led efforts to construct a “new” national culture following the social upheavals and military conflicts associated with the Mexican Revolution. The experience was Strand’s effort to create a visual record of Mexico documenting what he thought of as its unique character, while furthering its “revolutionary” transformation through photography and filmmaking

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