Color print

Museum number:

13-6736

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

13-5871

Accession number:

Acc.4724

Description:

color photographic print; matted "Micaela González's house; in front are her daughter Virginia Pichu, and William Iler, a UC Berkeley graduate student; July 15, 1959." [matted at PAHMA for exhibition]

Donor:

George M. Foster

Collection place:

Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, Mexico

Verbatim coll. place:

Mexico, Michoacan, Tzintzuntzan

Collector:

George M. Foster

Collection date:

July 15, 1959

Materials:

Paper (fiber product)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Color prints (photographs)

Accession date:

October 11, 2001

Department:

Still and motion photography

Dimensions:

photo— height 35.4 centimeters, photo— width 27.9 centimeters, matted— width 40.6 centimeters, and matted— height 50.8 centimeters

Comment:

In beginning our new work, Mary and I hoped to live much closer to the villagers, to be participant observers to the greatest degree possible. Here it was that an old friend, Doña Micaela González, her second husband Melecio Hernández, and her grown daughters Dolores and Virginia Pichu, rose to the challenge. With great apprehension, Micaela subsequently told us, and in response to [Gabriel] Ospina's urging, she agreed to put a glass window and a cement floor in a room for our use, to accept us into her home, to prepare our meals, to wash our clothing, and to answer our questions (1979).