Pictures of the mexican civil war from 1910 to 1920, as much as 1920's muralism or "la novela de la Revolución", contributed to the consolidation of post-revolutionary ideology offering the readers of illustrated reviews a soft and stereotyped representation of the conflict. This article basically analyses the pictures of juanes and soldaderas published in three magazines of the Post-Revolution (1910-1920) and demonstrates how these photographies lock up the protagonists of the war into "types" and how they are set up into symbols of "mexicanity", relieving then the simplifying speaches of the post-revolutionnary leaders and erasing the complexity of the conflict that founded Mexico of the XXth century.
Juan; Soldadera; Mexican Revolution; Photography; Illustrated Press; Mexicanity
