Casasola, Agustín Victor

He was born in Mexico City in 1874. He began his journalistic work as a typesetter and writer. By the end of the 19th century, he started taking photographs to illustrate his articles. In 1890, he joined El Mundo Ilustrado, a weekly publication of El Imparcial, where he consolidated his career as a photographer. In 1912, he founded the Mexican Agency of Photographic Information, which provided services to newspapers, magazines, and other governmental and private media. During the 1920s, he directed the Central Photography Department of the Nation, carrying out significant work in recording and collecting photographic images of the social and political life of Mexico City. In 1921, he published the Álbum Histórico Gráfico. He died in 1938.

His work at the agency resulted in the creation of an archive of twelve thousand images, which have been preserved since 1976 in the National Photography Archive of Pachuca, considered one of the most important archives in Latin America. His work has been published in books such as Agustín Víctor Casasola: The Man Who Captured an Era, 1900-1938; Agustín Casasola: Chiefs, Heroes, and Leaders: The Casasola Archive; and Agustín V. Casasola (Photo Poche).