Agustín Jiménez

Agustin Jimenez : Memoirs of the Avant-Garde
Publisher's Description
Mexico City-born photographer
Agustín Jiménez (1901–1974) was at
the center of his country’s flourishing
avant-garde, which emerged in
the 1920s when international photographers
like Edward Weston and
Tina Modotti began to travel extensively
there and relationships
between the local and foreign
artists led to aesthetic breakthroughs
on both sides. Jiménez is
known for crafting an indigenous
version of Romantic Pictorialism
very akin to Weston’s. Jiménez also
collaborated closely with the
Mexican illustrated press throughout
the 1920s and 30s, and in the
latter decade became involved with
the country’s burgeoning motion
picture industry—first as a still photographer
and then as a cinematographer,
in collaboration with such
seminal figures as Sergei Eisenstein,
Adolfo Best Maugard and Fernando
de Fuentes. This volume contains a
substantial selection of Jiménez’s
photographs and provides a
deserved overview of his rich oeuvre.
ISBN: 9689345117
Publisher: Editorial RM
Hardcover : 192 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 0.9 x 0.1 x 1.1 inches
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Publisher: Editorial RM
Hardcover : 192 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 0.9 x 0.1 x 1.1 inches