Mexico 1960's 1970's Les Routes de la Passion

First edition of Mexico 1960's 1970's Les Routes de la passion by Antonio Caballero. Medium format hardcover in near fine condition. No internal markings, there is some shelfwear to extremities of boards.

About

Antonio Caballero was a pioneer of the photonovela genre in Mexico and the author of numerous studio portraits of leading Mexican actors and actresses of the 1960s.

This publication features black and white images taken between 1960 and 1970. In that period, photographer Antonio Caballero was a prolific maker of Mexican fotonovelas, a kind of graphic novel form based on photography, filled with opera-style tales of love and betrayal.

The images in the book star expressions of the moments of intrigue and exaggerations of theatrical scenes. They are the kind of still images that stage their artificiality in a pleasantly amusing way, and ultimately empty of profound ideas.