Progress

16 September 2018

“The story of traveler-photographers in Mexico his as old as photography itself. It begins in 1839, when Jean Prelier disembarked in the port of Veracruz, loaded down with the enormous black box with which he was to capture the nineteenth century with the gaze of photographers eager to unearth the mysteries of Mexico’s ancient cultures, to capture its colonial architecture, and to mold the image of a country seeking entry into concert of nations through that magical concert of progress.”

Mauricio Maillé