**A Conversation with Gabriel: Mexican Photography and its Significance**

I had the pleasure of meeting a very talented photographer, Gabriel, who had sent me a book about Mexican photography a while back. Unfortunately, I hadn't gotten to it yet, and I wanted to share this with my audience, so we decided to take a break and look at it together.

**The Book: A Window into Mexican History**

Gabriel included a really nice note with the book, which explained that he had become friends with a historian named Miguel Berman who put the book together. The book is actually a reference guide for history, using photography as one of its primary sources. Miguel uses this book as one of his prime references for historical accuracy, and it was wonderful to see Gabriel's enthusiasm for it.

Gabriel pointed out that the print quality in the book is absolutely stunning, and he couldn't even do justice to it with the video equipment we were using. He wanted to share the book with me because there are over 400 photographers who documented the Mexican Revolution, and this book provides a small window into that world. Gabriel's excitement was palpable as he explained how much he admired the work in the book.

**The Importance of Mexican Photography**

Gabriel told me that he's been working on a new project for the artist series, which will feature three artists who specialize in Mexican photography. Before releasing those videos, Gabriel wants to create a primer that gives his audience a better understanding of the world of Mexican photography. He believes that if viewers know something about this history and culture, they'll have a deeper appreciation for the art.

Gabriel pointed out that he was surprised by how much he learned during his research in Mexico. One of the surprises was the wealth of cultural photography and art that exists there, which is often overlooked in favor of more well-known international artists. Gabriel believes that this is a missed opportunity for the world to discover new talent and appreciate a rich cultural heritage.

**The Significance of Mexican Photography**

Gabriel mentioned that one of the standout names in Mexican photography is Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who was instrumental in promoting photography throughout Mexico. The book Gabriel sent me includes earlier works by Bravo, which showcases the daguerreotype's impact on Mexican culture at the same time it was adopted elsewhere.

**A Look into Funding for Arts in Mexico**

Gabriel also mentioned his observations about funding for the arts in Mexico versus the United States. He noted that funding for arts is much more prominent in Mexico, and as a result, there are many books available that showcase high-quality cultural content, often funded by programs that support the arts.

**A Message to My Audience**

Before parting ways, Gabriel expressed his gratitude for the new mailing address I provided for him. He encouraged my audience to like, share, subscribe, and wait for more videos on the art of photography. With this book as a starting point, Gabriel is excited to delve into the world of Mexican photography in future videos, providing his viewers with a deeper understanding of this rich cultural heritage.

**Final Thoughts**

Gabriel's enthusiasm for Mexican photography and culture is infectious. As he shared his knowledge and passion for the subject, it became clear that there is so much more to discover about this fascinating world. By sharing this book, Gabriel has opened doors to new possibilities for exploration and appreciation. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to share this conversation with my audience, and I look forward to continuing our journey into the world of Mexican photography in future videos.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I have some big news to share with you guys today I finally have a new postal address and I will put it in the show description below I will not put it in the video because if one day I have to change it for some reason I can't replace the video I can only edit the text so that will be in the show description if you're watching on a desktop computer that's most likely below this video if you're on a mobile device you'll have to find it because it depends on how you're watching the video and what you're using to watch it on but anyway this is a big deal because there have been a bunch of people who have been emailing me over the last couple weeks saying hey I have something I want to send you maybe you want to share on the show and I apologize it's taken me so long to get to in a nutshell here's what happened I moved to Fort Worth last October and my original plan was is that I was going to keep my postal address in Dallas and the whole idea behind that one I wanted to support small business that run the Postal Service and it's one of those little pop-up mailboxes so a guy owns it and the Postal Service delivers mail there and then they have mailboxes and I had a key in that whole thing and so when I started renting a Pio box from them it was years ago and two women owned it later on they passed the business on to this guy who owned it and I'd met him a couple times really nice guy seemed very legit and one day a couple weeks ago I went to go check my mail got out of the car came around the corner next thing I know I find this sign and basically he hadn't paid his rent in a long long time and his landlord just closed the doors on him and so I had no idea where my mail was and apparently I missed the previous I think it was like two days before there were a lot of businesses that had Pio boxes there and apparently it was a pretty big deal when people showed up and couldn't get in and unfortunately that also is against the law because it's tampering with mail and I know the postal police got involved and it was very unfortunate I think what happened was the guy just got behind on bills and into a very unfortunate financial situation and probably had convinced himself that he could remedy that before it was too late and he just couldn't anyway it's it's very unfortunate but the good news is is the US Postal Service has been very cooperative and they have located all of my mail and I put a forward on the address and so last couple days it's been showing up here and so what I've done I have quite a stack of this going so if you have sent me something in the last couple months I'm just now getting to it and I apologize I have not seen it yet I don't mean to like ignore it I just didn't know it was there so that was the situation so that is over with I have a new mailing address and one of the things I wanted to do last summer I got into a pretty good groove here on the show of doing kind of mail stuff about once a week once every two weeks something like that and I shared a lot of things on the show at David broker herbs book was part of that I had some prints from some people on amber type I mean there was some really neat things in fact I have a little bookshelf dedicated over there to stuff that viewers have sent in and it's very special to me so I want to be able to share more stuff with you so I'm gonna start getting through this stack as soon as I can and I apologize for the delay the inconvenience and all this nonsense but in this video I want to share with you a book that came to me this is a huge book this is called Mexico Maiko fotografia yo revolución which basically is a compilation that's a huge book of photography that was done during the Mexican Revolution and this actually was a gift that was sent to me by Gabriel workman and Gabriel is somebody that I met when I was in Mexico last month he came to the Meetup and I have featured him on the show as well when I came back he had given me a book that he has that was basically a project that he's doing with this building that's going up in Mexico City and it's this major project he's done around the construction of it I've shared that on the show Gabriel is a super super nice guy a very talented photographer and it was really a pleasure to meet him and I felt bad because he had sent me this book a while back and I haven't gotten to it and I want to share this with you but let's go to where I can like put this down and we can look at it this is a fantastic book and Gabriel included a really nice note with this and explained that he had become friends with this historian who put the book together miguel berman and he said that miguel essentially uses as one of his prime references for history reference he uses photography and so it was really nice that he had him write a little note to me in the intro to the book and basically it says for ted forbes and it says there were over 400 photographers who documented the Mexican Revolution this is a small window into that world and this book is absolutely outstanding the print quality in here is gorgeous this video is not going to do it justice because I've just thrown it on the dining table in here but I wanted to share this with you because there's some amazing work now what I'm getting to here and the reason I wanted to share this book with you is one of the things I'm working on for a slightly more long-term more research intensive video that I'm working on is I want to do actually a couple videos giving you a little bit of a primer into the world of Mexican photography now I have three artists in the artist series who I'm gonna be featuring and before those videos come out I want to do this because I think it'll make much more sense and I think you'll have a bigger respect for those artists if you know something surrounding Mexican photography I personally believe that and I saw this when I went to Mexico and this is like the surprise of that unfolded during this whole project it's part of the artist series was that there is this wealth of culture and photography and art and Mexico that some of which is known internationally but I think it's really kind of it hasn't had it to do it doesn't get the respect it deserves on the world stage I think we tend to favor work that's done in Europe or the United States maybe Asia and maybe Mexico and I think we're really missing out on a wealth of material so I want to do a couple videos that give you a little bit of a primer because there really is a rich history to Mexico the only thing I've ever talked about as far as Mexican photography on the show really has been Edward Weston and Tina Maddow D when they went there in the 1920's 1930's and became friends with Frida Kahlo and Diego and Trotsky and the whole crew down there but they're neither one of them are actually Mexican photographers they were part of that culture but there's much more to it and that's what I want to start getting into and I want to talk about that before we get into the art series anyway I think that this book will be perfect for that because you know the history of Mexican photography most if you know anything about Mexican photography you probably the big standout name is Manuel Alvarez Bravo who was more or less the owner ECAR to embrace all of Mexico this work is earlier Mexico pretty much got hold of the daguerreotype at the same time everybody else did and there daguerreotype mania going on down there as well and people love the the the fact you could record images and fix them on to a surface and this was a big deal and so photography and Mexico goes back just as far as anywhere else so I'm going to use this book to to work with on that as well so I want to thank Gabriel for sending this over I think this is just absolutely fantastic and I'm sorry it's taking me so long to get to the other point I want to make about this is something that I noticed in Mexico as well as like in terms of having a book purchasing addiction this was bad news because there are ton of stuff funding for the Arts in Mexico is much different than what I'm familiar with funding in the arts in the United States they have a lot more set aside for the arts the arts play a very important role in that culture and so you can go pretty much to any museum or bookstore and you can find all these books that that are not available anywhere else in the world that are funded through some of these programs and this book is representative of that very high quality stuff not extremely expensive which was mind-blowing but being able to get in and share this kind of wealth of cultural recorded medium I think is really amazing so special thanks to Gabriel for sending this to me once again I will put the new mailing address in the show description and if you enjoyed this video please remember to like it share it subscribe to the art of photography for more videos and I will see you guys in the next one laterso I have some big news to share with you guys today I finally have a new postal address and I will put it in the show description below I will not put it in the video because if one day I have to change it for some reason I can't replace the video I can only edit the text so that will be in the show description if you're watching on a desktop computer that's most likely below this video if you're on a mobile device you'll have to find it because it depends on how you're watching the video and what you're using to watch it on but anyway this is a big deal because there have been a bunch of people who have been emailing me over the last couple weeks saying hey I have something I want to send you maybe you want to share on the show and I apologize it's taken me so long to get to in a nutshell here's what happened I moved to Fort Worth last October and my original plan was is that I was going to keep my postal address in Dallas and the whole idea behind that one I wanted to support small business that run the Postal Service and it's one of those little pop-up mailboxes so a guy owns it and the Postal Service delivers mail there and then they have mailboxes and I had a key in that whole thing and so when I started renting a Pio box from them it was years ago and two women owned it later on they passed the business on to this guy who owned it and I'd met him a couple times really nice guy seemed very legit and one day a couple weeks ago I went to go check my mail got out of the car came around the corner next thing I know I find this sign and basically he hadn't paid his rent in a long long time and his landlord just closed the doors on him and so I had no idea where my mail was and apparently I missed the previous I think it was like two days before there were a lot of businesses that had Pio boxes there and apparently it was a pretty big deal when people showed up and couldn't get in and unfortunately that also is against the law because it's tampering with mail and I know the postal police got involved and it was very unfortunate I think what happened was the guy just got behind on bills and into a very unfortunate financial situation and probably had convinced himself that he could remedy that before it was too late and he just couldn't anyway it's it's very unfortunate but the good news is is the US Postal Service has been very cooperative and they have located all of my mail and I put a forward on the address and so last couple days it's been showing up here and so what I've done I have quite a stack of this going so if you have sent me something in the last couple months I'm just now getting to it and I apologize I have not seen it yet I don't mean to like ignore it I just didn't know it was there so that was the situation so that is over with I have a new mailing address and one of the things I wanted to do last summer I got into a pretty good groove here on the show of doing kind of mail stuff about once a week once every two weeks something like that and I shared a lot of things on the show at David broker herbs book was part of that I had some prints from some people on amber type I mean there was some really neat things in fact I have a little bookshelf dedicated over there to stuff that viewers have sent in and it's very special to me so I want to be able to share more stuff with you so I'm gonna start getting through this stack as soon as I can and I apologize for the delay the inconvenience and all this nonsense but in this video I want to share with you a book that came to me this is a huge book this is called Mexico Maiko fotografia yo revolución which basically is a compilation that's a huge book of photography that was done during the Mexican Revolution and this actually was a gift that was sent to me by Gabriel workman and Gabriel is somebody that I met when I was in Mexico last month he came to the Meetup and I have featured him on the show as well when I came back he had given me a book that he has that was basically a project that he's doing with this building that's going up in Mexico City and it's this major project he's done around the construction of it I've shared that on the show Gabriel is a super super nice guy a very talented photographer and it was really a pleasure to meet him and I felt bad because he had sent me this book a while back and I haven't gotten to it and I want to share this with you but let's go to where I can like put this down and we can look at it this is a fantastic book and Gabriel included a really nice note with this and explained that he had become friends with this historian who put the book together miguel berman and he said that miguel essentially uses as one of his prime references for history reference he uses photography and so it was really nice that he had him write a little note to me in the intro to the book and basically it says for ted forbes and it says there were over 400 photographers who documented the Mexican Revolution this is a small window into that world and this book is absolutely outstanding the print quality in here is gorgeous this video is not going to do it justice because I've just thrown it on the dining table in here but I wanted to share this with you because there's some amazing work now what I'm getting to here and the reason I wanted to share this book with you is one of the things I'm working on for a slightly more long-term more research intensive video that I'm working on is I want to do actually a couple videos giving you a little bit of a primer into the world of Mexican photography now I have three artists in the artist series who I'm gonna be featuring and before those videos come out I want to do this because I think it'll make much more sense and I think you'll have a bigger respect for those artists if you know something surrounding Mexican photography I personally believe that and I saw this when I went to Mexico and this is like the surprise of that unfolded during this whole project it's part of the artist series was that there is this wealth of culture and photography and art and Mexico that some of which is known internationally but I think it's really kind of it hasn't had it to do it doesn't get the respect it deserves on the world stage I think we tend to favor work that's done in Europe or the United States maybe Asia and maybe Mexico and I think we're really missing out on a wealth of material so I want to do a couple videos that give you a little bit of a primer because there really is a rich history to Mexico the only thing I've ever talked about as far as Mexican photography on the show really has been Edward Weston and Tina Maddow D when they went there in the 1920's 1930's and became friends with Frida Kahlo and Diego and Trotsky and the whole crew down there but they're neither one of them are actually Mexican photographers they were part of that culture but there's much more to it and that's what I want to start getting into and I want to talk about that before we get into the art series anyway I think that this book will be perfect for that because you know the history of Mexican photography most if you know anything about Mexican photography you probably the big standout name is Manuel Alvarez Bravo who was more or less the owner ECAR to embrace all of Mexico this work is earlier Mexico pretty much got hold of the daguerreotype at the same time everybody else did and there daguerreotype mania going on down there as well and people love the the the fact you could record images and fix them on to a surface and this was a big deal and so photography and Mexico goes back just as far as anywhere else so I'm going to use this book to to work with on that as well so I want to thank Gabriel for sending this over I think this is just absolutely fantastic and I'm sorry it's taking me so long to get to the other point I want to make about this is something that I noticed in Mexico as well as like in terms of having a book purchasing addiction this was bad news because there are ton of stuff funding for the Arts in Mexico is much different than what I'm familiar with funding in the arts in the United States they have a lot more set aside for the arts the arts play a very important role in that culture and so you can go pretty much to any museum or bookstore and you can find all these books that that are not available anywhere else in the world that are funded through some of these programs and this book is representative of that very high quality stuff not extremely expensive which was mind-blowing but being able to get in and share this kind of wealth of cultural recorded medium I think is really amazing so special thanks to Gabriel for sending this to me once again I will put the new mailing address in the show description and if you enjoyed this video please remember to like it share it subscribe to the art of photography for more videos and I will see you guys in the next one later\n"