Hernán Cortés: Cuernavaca (12)


Source: WTL photo© taken on site in Cuernavaca.
Image: Three generations of craft vendors who were taking a lunch break from their job.
Comment: The three ladies consented to the professor-photographer's request to take this photograph. The grandmother, as you can see, was more reluctant to be fotographed, but her daughter (left) and granddaughter (right) were much more willing to have their photo taken. Communicating with them was done more by means of gestures than language. The professor-photographer spoke Spanish but not Náhuatl, whereas the women spoke—very quietly—Náhuatl but not Spanish.
Questions: What comments would you make about their clothes? How do you interpret the three women's different attitudes concerning their willingness to be photographed? What does this photograph contribute to your feeling for and understanding of the Mexican people and their culture(s)?