National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment

by Roberto Tejada

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In National Camera, Roberto Tejada offers a comprehensive study of Mexican photography from the early twentieth century to today, demonstrating how images have shaped identities in Mexico, the United States, and in the borderlands where the two nations and cultures intersect-a place Tejada calls the shared image environment. The "problem" of photography in Mexico, Tejada shows, reveals cross-cultural episodes that are rife with contradictions, especially in the complex terms of cultural and show more sexual difference. Analyzing such topics as territory, sexuality, and social and ethnic relations in imag show less

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Roberto Tejada teaches Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego, where he is faculty in the Visual Arts Department.

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Art & Design, Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
770.972Arts & recreationPhotographyPhotography & Computer / Digital ArtBiography And HistoryNorth AmericaMexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
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TR28 .T45TechnologyPhotographyPhotography
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