October 31, 2011

Mexico: yesterday is (still) today



Antonio Caso wrote in 1924:

"Lo que arraiga [en México] es la tragedia terrible en que vivimos, en que nos movemos y somos".

Ten years later, Manuel Álvarez Bravo took this image of a worker being shot. Few things have changed since then.


Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Obrero en huelga asesinado (1934)


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