“In this richly illustrated bilingual catalogue, Julieta Pestarino demonstrates how twentieth-century Mexican photography was profoundly interconnected and collectively conceived. This book is a must-have for anyone seeking an introduction to the development of one of the most influential and internationally recognized photographic traditions in Latin America.”

—Juanita Solano Roa, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá

“Instante/revelación: Moments in Mexican Photography explores the fertile artistic milieu of twentieth-century photography in Mexico, providing irrefutable testimony of its indomitable force within global modernism.”

—Alejandra Uslenghi, Associate Professor in Latin American Literature and Culture, Director of Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University

“Julieta Pestarino has meticulously organized a set of powerful images into visual clusters that form a constellation of Mexican culture throughout the twentieth century. This publication reveals how photography in Mexico has taken shape in community and transcended globally, turning everyday surroundings into photo-poetry.”

“Julieta Pestarino, en su delicada labor, organiza en núcleos visuales un conjunto de imágenes potentes que conforman una constelación de la cultura mexicana, a lo largo del siglo XX. Este catálogo revela que la fotografía en México ha tomado forma en comunidad y que ha trascendido globalmente, tornando fotopoético al entorno cotidiano.”

—Vanesa Magnetto, Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET