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Vendedor de Café (coffee seller with young male customer)

Luis Campa and Antíoco Cruces1870/1875

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College
Wellesley, United States

Antíoco Cruces and Luis Campa ran a prominent photography studio in Mexico City from 1862 until 1877. Along with commissioned portraits, they were well known for their “occupational types”—images of lower-class workers and street vendors. Printed in the collectible carte-de-visite format, the occupationals reified social hierarchies for their elite and middle-class owners, just as they animated visualizations of Mexican identity and fostered nostalgia for a premodern way of life that was understood to be disappearing from the newly modernized urban milieu.

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  • Title: Vendedor de Café (coffee seller with young male customer)
  • Creator: Luis Campa and Antíoco Cruces
  • Date Created: 1870/1875
  • Provenance: Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Museum purchase with funds given by The Gruber Family Foundation through the generosity of Linda Wyatt Gruber (Class of 1966), 2011.173.8
  • Rights: Davis Museum at Wellesley College
  • External Link: Davis Museum at Wellesley College
  • Medium: Carte de visite
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College

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