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Peasants of Oaxaca. Mexico. Circa 1920.

Gelatin silver print, toned in sepia, measures: 10 x 14.5 cm / 3.93 x 5.7 in. On the reverse side, a typewritten paper cutout pasted with the legend: “Photo # 21. (For the second article). Peasants of the valley of Oaxaca. They are very common in the region - the "colotes" or large baskets carried by the cart. (Photo Osuna)”.


Two boys and a child, peasants from the Oaxaca valley, carry products in their "coletes" -large wicker baskets- on a slow cart pulled by a team of oxen at noon. The three watch the photographer carry out his work, protected from the inclement southern Mexican sun with hats. Behind, the dense vegetation.


Sabino Osuna was a Mexican photographer and businessman, producer of postcards. His work as a photographic reporter for the Mexican Revolution was highlighted. He extensively covered the Decena Trágica (February 1913), the entry of the Villista and Zapatista armies into Mexico City (1914), the delahuertista rebellion (1923-1924). In 2016 the Maxuel Museum of Antropology in New Mexico, United States, held an extensive exhibition entitled “Mexico at the Hour of Combat: Sabino Osuna's Photographs of the Mexican Revolution”, with 57 photographs selected from the Osuna Collection of 427 negatives of glass preserved by the University of California Library. His photographic work aimed at the production of postcards would extend until the 1940s, commercializing in the Callejón del Espíritu Santo n. 6, in Mexico City. S.O.IV-OMM

AUTHOR SABINO OSUNA

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