Friday

Hand-coloured photographs by Luis Márquez, 1937


Woman holding flowers in white headpiece

Found here

See more beautiful images if you go search at
University of Houston digital Library


Girl with two beautiful bowls sitting in red skirt


Woman sitting on staircase - red and white dress


Woman in dress pulling a vase


Woman in red dress, sunflowers, sitting with blanket


Picture of seated woman in blue
rebozo shawl and red skirt


Mexican woman in front of a blue door


Seated woman with teal rebozo shawl on her head.
Hand-colored photograph by Luis Marquez


Man in blue attire, yellow head piece and swords.
Danzante de La Media Luna


Man sitting with colorful headpiece and maracas. Mexico

5 comments:

aafke7 said...

What pleasure to see these pictures! Thank you very much! Old photography do make me longing to distant pastures! That first picture... the love of roses will never fade!

Maria said...

Very beautiful photos! Reminds me Frida. I like specially "Seated woman with teal rebozo shawl on her head". Thanks for share! :)

Aputsiaq said...

They are amazing ...and a bit Frida-like! I'm in love of the first picture as well ;O)

Michele said...

Thank you for your interest in our Luis Marquez photograph collection. At the University of Houston digital Library we strive to provide interesting and engaging historical materials. You can find many other collections at http://digital.lib.uh.edu

Michele Reilly
UH Digital Library
University of Houston Libraries
Houston, TX

Aputsiaq said...

I'm so smitten with these photos! And thank you for taking your time to send me the link...I'll have to spend some more time there!!!