Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

La gracia de los retratos antiguos [The Charm of Old Portraits] by Enrique Fernández Ledesma (1950) is required reading to learn about the history of photography in Mexico. It includes a prologue written by the diplomat Marte R. Gómez, as well as a [...]

These are Edward Weston’s notes on daguerreotypes. He remarks that those original images had no artistic pretensions at all. The complicated process made it hard for photographers to play the “arrogant artist.” Weston also suggests that the [...]