photos photo stream / Internet Mexico.-when Hugo Brehme arrived in Mexico in 1905, the fight was already brewing along the Rails. The young born in Eisenach, in just 20 years, carried a heavy photographic equipment, but that did not stop him register sobrados unrepeatable moments of a particular aesthetic.
Because its preparation as an artist before coming to Mexico, Brehme was able to catch the Symmetries of the Mexican landscapes while traveling throughout the country looking for great monuments to print their postcards, business that gave him to eat.
According to an investigation of Susan Tomey Frost of the Instituto Iberoamericano Berlin (part owner of the acquis of Brehme), the market of the postcards in the early 20th century in Mexico was dominated by photographers and editors without Hispanic surnames, among the that highlights the Frida Kahlo’s father, Guillermo Kahlo.
Brehme established a Studio producer of postcards for the European market in calle de San Juan de Letran number 3 and later opened another in the Avenida Cinco de Mayo, where Manuel Alvarez Bravo worked and learned the fundamentals of photography.
The images presented here were captured from 1905 to 1914 and today form part of the collections of the Ibero-American Institute of Berlin and the acquis Hugo Brehme in the national photo library, based in Pachuca.
It is also a small fragment of the exhibition on the work of Brehme, who died in 1954, which is exhibited in the Museo Franz Mayer of the Center historic of the city of Mexico.
Editor’s Note: this article was published in 2010 on the occasion of the centenary of the Mexican Revolution.
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