Agustín Casasola
Agustín Víctor Casasola (28 July 1874 – 30 March 1938) was a Mexican photographer and partial founder of the Mexican Association of Press Photographers. Casasola began his career as a typographer for the newspaper El Imparcial, eventually moving to reporter then on to photographer in the early 1900s. He became a photographer in 1894.
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Agustín Casasola
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- Born
- 1874 · Mexico City.
- Died
- 1938 · Mexico City.
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Occupation
- painter · photographer · diplomat
- Languages
- Spanish
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Agustín Víctor Casasola (28 July 1874 – 30 March 1938) was a Mexican photographer and partial founder of the Mexican Association of Press Photographers. Casasola began his career as a typographer for the newspaper El Imparcial, eventually moving to reporter then on to photographer in the early 1900s. He became a photographer in 1894.
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Born at Mexico City in 1874, died in Mexico City in 1938.
The recorded working language is Spanish. Places of work recorded in the authority are Netherlands, Mexico and Nogales. Work by Agustín Casasola is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Stadsarchief Rotterdam, National Museum of World Cultures, National Gallery of Canada and National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina.
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- 1.Pete Hamill, „The Casasola Archive“, S. 13–21, S. 13, Abschn. II., in: Pablo Ortiz Monasterio (Hrsg.), „Mexico. The Revolution and Beyond. Photographs by Agustín Víctor Casasola 1900–1940“, Aperture Foundation, publiziert in Kooperation mit Conaculta-INAH, New York 2003
- 2.Library of Congress, „Casasola, Agustín Víctor, 1874-1938“, https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85161513.html
- 3.Erika Billeter, Kap.: »Photographers Who Documented History«, S. 372–421, in: Erika Billeter (Hrsg.), „Imagines of Mexico, The Contribution of Mexico to 20th Century Art“, Catalogue of the exhibition edited by Erika Billeter, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, 1987, https://archive.org/details/imaginesofmexico0000erik/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22Casasola%22 S. 372, https://archive.org/details/imaginesofmexico0000erik/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22Casasola%22
- 4.Mediateca INAH, Colección Archivo Casasola - Fototeca Nacional, https://mediateca.inah.gob.mx/islandora_74/islandora/object/fondo%3Asinafo_a
- 5.Erika Billeter, Kap.: »Photographers Who Documented History«, S. 372–421, in: Erika Billeter (Hrsg.), „Imagines of Mexico, The Contribution of Mexico to 20th Century Art“, Catalogue of the exhibition edited by Erika Billeter, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, 1987, https://archive.org/details/imaginesofmexico0000erik/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22Casasola%22 S. 373, https://archive.org/details/imaginesofmexico0000erik/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22Casasola%22
- 6.Rita Pomade, „The legacy of Agustin Victor Casasola (Photographer 1874 – 1938)“, in: MexConnect, 1. Juni 2004, © 2004 by Rita Pomade, https://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1086-the-legacy-of-agustin-victor-casasola-photographer-1874-1938/
- 7.Dictionnaire mondial de la photographie / Larousse, 2001, S. 115, „CASASOLA Agustín-Víctor“, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1200506v
- 8.Anders offenbar: Erika Billeter, Kap.: »Photographers Who Documented History«, S. 372–421, in: Erika Billeter (Hrsg.), Imagines of Mexico, The Contribution of Mexico to 20th Century Art, Catalogue of the exhibition edited by Erika Billeter, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, 1987, https://archive.org/details/imaginesofmexico0000erik/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22Casasola%22 , S. 372: „It is also unclear whether he knew Hugo Brehme who lived in Mexico City at the time and, like Casasola, travelled all over the country during the Mexican Revolution.“
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