Agustín
Víctor Casasola (1874–1928), others cite: (July 28. 1874 – March
30. 1938) was a Mexican photographer and partial founder of the
Mexican Association of Press Photographers.
Casasola
began his career as a typographer for the newspaper El Imparcial,
eventually moving to reporter then on to photographer in the early
1900s. He became a photographer in 1894. By 1911 Casasola was
credited with founding the first Mexican press agency, Agencia
Fotografica Mexicana. Casasola was later thanked by the interim
president in 1911, Francisco León de la Barra, for having
"inaugurated a new phase of freedom in the press photography."
By the end of 1912 the agency had expanded and changed its name to
Agencia Mexicana de Informacion Fotografica. The agency brought on
more photographers and began purchasing pictures from foreign
agencies and amateurs, then redistributing those photographs to
newspapers.
When
El Imparcial went out of business in 1917, Casasola recovered the
newspapers archives, eventually compiling many of the photographs
into the famed "Album histórico gráfico" which covered
the events of the Mexican Revolution. Casasola only managed to print
the first 6 volumes covering the years 1910 to 1912. It is believed
the work did not fare well due to the changing attitude of people
wanting to move on from the death and suffering that plagued the
civil war.
In
1920, Casasola as well as other notable Mexican photographers founded
the Mexican Association of Press photographers.
Casasola's
collection was later dubbed the Casasola Archive where it was later
housed at the National Institute of Anthropology and History of
Mexico, the collection totaling over 500,000 prints and negatives.
He was
father to Mexican photographer Gustavo
Casasola Zapata and Federico
Casasola Zapata.
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