Franciscano [Detail of a José Clemente Orozco mural in the Preparatoria, Mexico City]

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Franciscano [Detail of a José Clemente Orozco mural in the Preparatoria, Mexico City]

Creator

Edward Weston

American Photographer · 1886–1958

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> To clearly express my feeling for life with photographic beauty, present objectively the texture, rhythm, form in nature, without subterfuge or evasion in technique or spirit, to record the quintessence of the object or element before my lens, rather than an interpretation, a superficial phase, or passing mood--this is my way in photography. It is not an easy way. > > --Edward Weston In the spri

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Date
negative 1926; print probably early 1930s
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
Mexican
Department
Photographs
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View of a mural known as "Franciscano," also known as "The Franciscan and the Indian," by José Clemente Orozco at the former Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, part of the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City. The mural depicts a Franciscan friar dressed in his habit leaning over and hugging an emaciated person. The mural appears to have been vandalized in this view.

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