Librado García "Smarth": La Vanguardia Fotográfica en Jalisco

Guadalajara, México: Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco, Secretaria de Cultura, 2019. Quarto in red cloth; 303 pages: illustrations (some color), portraits; 25 cm + 1 booklet (17 cm; 8 pages). Booklet titled "Exposición guillermo toussaint (esculturas en madera)" Bibliographical references (pages 299-301). As new; sealed in original shrinkwrap. Very fine. Shrinkwrap unopened. Hardcover. ISBN: 9786077341581; 6077341584

In Spanish. Uncommon. Contents: Librado García Smarth. La vanguardia fotográfica en Jalisco / Enrique Alfaro Ramírez -- Librado García Smarth, nuestra sombra luminosa / Giovana Elizabeth Jaspersen García -- En las sombras del pasado. Hallazgos en una historia que es la nuestra / José Antonio Rodríguez, Alberto Tovalín Ahumada -- Siluetas en la niebla / José Antonio Rodríguez -- Melanceãs y artificio / Brenda Ledserna -- El espléndido camouflage / Arturo Ávila Cano -- El lenguaje visual de las revistas y los refinamientos fotográficos de Smarth / Rosa Casanova -- Smarth, aquí y allá / José Antonio Rodríguez -- Obra fotográfica -- Gestualidad de fantasía / Brenda Ledesma -- Documentos -- English version. || Librado García or "Smarth", as he signed, had his studio in the center of the city of Guadalajara, and was active during the photographic avant-garde that was forging in the city at the dawn of the 20th century. Little is known about him, the only certainty is that in the mid-1930s no photograph of him was seen or was heard from him again. The book is the work of a team of researchers who set out to recover the work of an avant-garde photographer whose life was lost in mystery. This works an exercise in memory to make available to the public and specialists, a remarkable production, which for the most part remains unpublished for historians of art and photography. Throughout the book, the reader can appreciate that the photographer, known as "Smarth", collaborated extensively in the most important illustrated magazines of the time: Jueves de Excelsior, El Universal Ilustrado, CROM, Revistas de Revistas or Nuestra Ciudad, among others, and thanks to this it has been possible to discover his photographic work that is scattered in different private collections in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Puebla and abroadPhotography, Artistic. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Photographie -- Mexique -- Guadalajara -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. Photographie artistique. art photography. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Photography Photography, Artistic Named Person: Smarth (Photographer) -- Criticism and interpretation. History Time: 1900-1999 Geographic: Mexico -- Guadalajara