Monica Bravo, Greater American Camera: Making Modernism in Mexico

There is no shortage of scholarship on emblematic “American” photographers Edward Weston, Paul Strand and Tina Modotti, and their relationships with Mexican culture in the 1920s and 1930s — most notably their influence on Manuel Alvarez Bravo. In numerous monographs and exhibitions dedicated to their careers, Mexican travels always emerge as a defining moment. Yet, from Rebeca Zurier’s Photographs of Mexico: Modotti/Strand/Weston (1978) to James Krippner’s Paul Strand in Mexico (2010), throug...