{"product_id":"mexican-portraits-pablo-ortiz-monasterio-vesta-monica-herrerias","title":"Mexican Portraits — Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Vesta Mónica Herrerías, Aperture","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"585\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"154\"\u003eMexican Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary collective portrait of a nation, compiled by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio and Vesta Mónica Herrerías from private collections and institutional archives across Mexico. Published by Aperture and Fundación Televisa, this large-format volume weaves a photographic tapestry spanning over a century—from daguerreotypes to vernacular snapshots, studio prints to ID photos—mapping out the evolving face of Mexican identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"587\" data-end=\"999\"\u003eThe book resists chronological narration in favour of emotional resonance. Faces appear and reappear, echoing across time and class: revolutionaries, Indigenous women, soldiers, lovers, children, bureaucrats, boxers. Their expressions—defiant, formal, vulnerable—speak of memory, resistance, beauty, and belonging. Rather than focusing on authorship or aesthetics, the editors have centred the act of being seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1001\" data-end=\"1313\"\u003ePrinted with tactile elegance, \u003cem data-start=\"1032\" data-end=\"1051\"\u003eMexican Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e is as much anthropology as it is poetry—where personal and collective memory merge in the photographic trace. It sits alongside works like \u003cem data-start=\"1191\" data-end=\"1229\"\u003eFacundo de Zuviría: Siesta Argentina\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem data-start=\"1233\" data-end=\"1254\"\u003eArchivo Discontinuo\u003c\/em\u003e as a major effort in Latin American archival storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1695\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003cbr data-start=\"1330\" data-end=\"1333\"\u003eTitle: Mexican Portraits\u003cbr data-start=\"1357\" data-end=\"1360\"\u003eEditor(s): Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Vesta Mónica Herrerías\u003cbr data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1420\"\u003eDate: Unstated (likely early 2000s)\u003cbr data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1458\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1493\" data-end=\"1496\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover\u003cbr data-start=\"1525\" data-end=\"1528\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eDimensions (cm): approx. 30 × 30\u003cbr data-start=\"1560\" data-end=\"1563\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"1583\"\u003ePages: Unstated\u003cbr data-start=\"1598\" data-end=\"1601\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Aperture \/ Fundación Televisa\u003cbr data-start=\"1650\" data-end=\"1653\"\u003eISBN: 978-1-59711-272-7\u003cbr data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1679\"\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52607734907218,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_0b56b0f1-e1c4-4a3a-ba66-2e4654078ab7.jpg?v=1769957005","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/mexican-portraits-pablo-ortiz-monasterio-vesta-monica-herrerias","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}