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FAJARDO TAPIA, David. The sacred image. Fotohagiography of José de León Toral. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2021, n.62, pp.123-150.  Epub 16-Maio-2022. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2021.62.77455.

This text analyzes a photographic album that have a particular religious meaning for having being attributed a devotional zeal to the figure of José de León Toral, the catholic fanatic who assassinated Mexican president Álvaro Obregón in 1928. The pictures are considered relics by believers, a fact that allows us to question the value of photography as a mere extension of the human body. The album not only recreates Toral’s memory, but recovers the long tradition of the lives of Christian saints to present Toral as a model life that, from the materiality of the photo album, makes a body-object which can be considered a photohagiography of one of the most controversial characters in the history of the Mexican 20th century.

Palavras-chave : album; photography; relic; photohagiography; martyr.

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