Octaviano de la Mora: breve historia de un fotógrafo del siglo XIX

Abstract

Octaviano de la Mora is one of the most important portrait photographers of the Mexican 19th century and to whom little attention has been paid. To inquire about his work is to penetrate the aesthetics of self-representation of that century, technical excellence and scrutinize a business that over time became an exemplary company of the Porfiriato. Its prestige grew enough so that the city of Guadalajara was no longer sufficient for its aspirations and the nation’s capital, and its personalities associated with power, became its new horizon and social desire to thereby achieve that its company photographic outside the most important in Mexico.