About Agustín Casasola
Lived 1874 – 1938 (aged 63). Agustín Casasola was a Mexican painter, photographer and diplomat.
Agustín Víctor Casasola (28 July 1874 – 30 March 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. Casasola's collection was later renamed the Casasola Archive and is the foundational collection of the Mexican government's photographic archive, the Fototeca Nacional, administered by the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, in Pachuca. The collection totals over 500,000 prints and negatives.
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Who was Agustín Casasola?
Mexican photographer (1874-1938)
When was Agustín Casasola born?
Agustín Casasola was born on 28 July 1874 in Mexico City.
When did Agustín Casasola die?
Agustín Casasola died on 30 March 1938 in Mexico City.
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Agustín Casasola was a painter, photographer and diplomat.
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Agustín Casasola was Mexican.
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