LAST CHANCE: "Mexican Revolution and Beyond" @ Lorenzo Homar Gallery

From a photo of the man who precipitated the revolution, Porfirio Diaz through Villa and Zapata to the soldiers, irregulars for the most part, male and female, the people who changed Mexico forever fill "Mexican Revolution and Beyond."

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LAST CHANCE: "Mexican Revolution and Beyond" @ Lorenzo Homar Gallery

POSTED: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 4:00 PM

(Print from the Casasola Archives)

"Mexican Revolution and Beyond." Could there be a drier title for a roomful of highly detailed black and white photos? At times shockingly intimate — corpses, said to be suicides, stretched beautiful and nude, and autopsies in progress, striking in their immediacy some 70 plus years after the images were captured. Juicy in the extreme, this is not strictly war or history, the images are really frozen life.

From a photo of the man who precipitated the revolution, Porfirio Diaz through Villa and Zapata to the soldiers, irregulars for the most part, male and female, the people who changed Mexico forever fill one section of the north wall at Taller.

But life after revolution is much like the story of how life changes after enlightment. Before? Chop wood, carry water. After? Carry water, chop wood. So the Casasola Archive, now celebrating its 100th anniversary of visually documenting life in Mexico, shows us what life was like, mostly in the capital, up through 1940, day by day.

Who will find this fascinating? Anyone who loves the first part of the last century and would like to compare and contrast that urban center's life and progress with others. Transportation mavens will love the old buses, trucks and cars seen from above, completely clogging a downtown intersection during a strike. One still shows a group of gay men posing for the camera, gorgeous, amused and queenly, disdainful of the inconvenience of a police raid. People earning a living and at leisure in a huge pool, modern for the time pool, people on the street and in studios, three decades of Mexican life sizzle on the second floor of Taller. As Taller's visual arts manager, Rafael Damast, readily admits, no matter how often he looks at these photos, more details become apparent to him.

Through July 23, Lorenzo Homar Gallery, Taller Puertorriqueño, 2721 N. 5th, 215 426 3311, tallerpr.org.

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