Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty photographs, each one reproducing a fragment of the sun-flooded grandeur of old and new Mexico, are now on view in the entrance lobby of Robinson Hall, where they will remain until next Wednesday...
...modern beauty with a light struck Latin-American tinge. Because the photographs portray several types of Mexican architecture from early Baroque to modern utilitarian schools, they are sure to be of interest to students in any one of the architectural fields. Pictures of modern low-cost housing units in Mexico City are side by side with views of 16th century Franciscan arches...
...most accomplished example of photographic art at its best is afforded by a study of the floating gardens at Xochimilco, a suburb of Mexico City. Concerning this work, the following information is given out in a special circular for the exhibit: "The gardens, dating from at least 1270, halted Cortes, who was rescued from the mire of its sluice ways by Tlaxcalan allies...
...most interesting photographs in the collection is that of the studio of Diego Rivera in San Angel, "a quiet suburb of Mexico City." Another work bound to attract attention is that of "Devotees at the Capilla del Pocito," which was taken at a spring in Guadalupe. Here, tradition holds that a spring with miraculous healing powers burst from beneath the feet of the Virgin of Guadalupe about...
...fitting conclusion to the exhibit is seen in "Contrasts," a study in blending the sun-baked light of Mexico with a succession of gently graded shadows...