War is hazardous for your health: photographs and testimonies about death, wounds, disease and medical care during the Mexican Revolution

Abstract

Palavras-chave: Revolução Mexicana (1910-1920; fotografias históricas; saúde nas guerras; demografia; história oral.

History, Modernity and Atrocity in Mexican Visual Culture

“…54 In what, elsewhere, I have termed the 'photographic morgue', amongst the famous corpses, we find that of Pancho Villa, assassinated in July 1923, his naked and bullet-lacerated body, depicted on a bed at the Hotel Hidalgo in Parral, Chihuahua, a white sheet the only concession to his modesty. 55 The assassination was not the end of the story for Villa's corpse: 'on February 6, 1926, the administrator of the cemetery [in which he was buried] found that Villa's grave had been opened, and that his head had disappeared'; the location of this trophy remains a mystery to this day.…”