Instante/revelacion

Julieta Pestarino is assistant curator, Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum.

"In this richly illustrated bilingual catalogue, JulietaPestarino demonstrates how twentieth-century Mexican photography was profoundlyinterconnected and collectively conceived. This book is a must-have for anyoneseeking an introduction to the development of one of the most influential andinternationally recognized photographic traditions in Latin America."- Juanita Solano Roa, Associate Professor, Department of Art History,Universidad de los Andes, BogotaInstante/revelacion: Moments in MexicanPhotography explores the fertile artistic milieu of twentieth-centuryphotography in Mexico, providing irrefutable testimony of its indomitable forcewithin global modernism. -Alejandra Uslenghi, Associate Professor inLatin American Literature and Culture, Director of Comparative LiteraryStudies, Northwestern UniversityJulieta Pestarino has meticulously organized a set of powerfulimages into visual clusters that form a constellation of Mexican culturethroughout the twentieth century. This publication reveals how photography inMexico has taken shape in community and transcended globally, turning everydaysurroundings into photo-poetry.Julieta Pestarino, en su delicada labor, organiza en nucleosvisuales un conjunto de imagenes potentes que conforman una constelacion de lacultura mexicana, a lo largo del siglo XX. Este catalogo revela que lafotografia en Mexico ha tomado forma en comunidad y que ha trascendidoglobalmente, tornando fotopoetico al entorno cotidiano.- Vanesa Magnetto, Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Universidadde Buenos Aires, CONICET"Drawing on Octavio Paz's 1982 landmark publication Instantey revelacion as a conceptual cue, Julieta Pestarino achieves aninnovative reading of Mexican photography as a historical constellation ofvisual thought, shared forms, and aesthetic affinities."-Laura Gonzalez-Flores, senior researcher andprofessor, Institute of Aesthetic Research, National AutonomousUniversity of Mexico"Tomando como punto de partida conceptual la emblematica publicacion deOctavio Paz de 1982 Instante y revelacion, Julieta Pestarino propone unalectura innovadora de la fotografia mexicana como una constelacion historica depensamiento visual, formas compartidas y afinidades esteticas."-Laura Gonzalez-Flores, investigadora titular yprofesora, Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, Universidad NacionalAutonoma de Mexico