No role as an art form

20 February 2019

“Prior to the 1920s, photography played virtually no role as an art form on Mexico. It was valued for its documentary properties and transparency of meaning, assumptions now understood as fallacious. (…) No distinction was made between the photograph and reproductions of the photograph: It was valued solely as a means to communicate raw data.” Sarah M. Lowe in Tina Modotti and Edward Weston The Mexico Years