LUIS MARQUEZ. Photographer. 27 color postcards. Mexico. c. 1940.

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LUIS MARQUEZ
. Photographer. A group of 27 different color postcards, issued by "Publicaciones Fischgrund," from photographs by Marquez. Each measures 5 x 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. All but two are unused. Mexico, circa 1940.
"In the mid-1930's, Luis Marquez (1899-1978) colorized his dramatic photographs into postcards that lie between two major periods in Mexican postcard making; black and white real photos and color chromes. Before color film was readily available in Mexico, Marquez' technique made his postcard images appear as if they had been shot in color... Hand-tinted photographs of Luis Marquez were published in the mid-1930's by Eugenio Fishgrund in a series of 96 postcards.. Marquez enlarged, hand-tinted and marketed many of his prints as art photographs, and it was these hand-tinted images that were reproduced for the postcards series.." -Susan Toomey Frost.  (# 4107).