100 Photographs by Juan Rulfo

Photographer and novelist Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) bequeathed to posterity a vast archive of some 6,000 photographs, and this monograph is the first publication to draw on this archive. Thematized around images of Mexican architecture, landscapes and village life, family, friends, artists and writers, it also includes essays by Rulfo on Cartier-Bresson and Nacho Lopez. Andrew Dempsey spent ten years studying the entire body of Juan Rulfo's photographic work, consisting of some 6,000 images. Daniele De Luigi joined him in his task and together they have made this selection of 100 photographs. This catalogue-book, the first ever based on familiarity with the entire photographic archive of Juan Rulfo, draws on the majority of the genres he cultivated, each one duly weighed: the buildings of Mexico, the country's varied landscapes, small village life, the family and friends, including artists and writers of Juan Rulfo himself. Two texts by Rulfo are included: one on the two sojourns of Henri Cartier-Bresson in Mexico and another on the Mexican photographer Nacho Lopez. The authors of the selection have also contributed texts written from their own highly informed perspectives. 100 photographs