This volume gathers together some emblematic images of the twentieth century, the work of three masters of photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo. It is published on the occasion of the exhibition presented at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, which echoes the historic showing by the same three photographers at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1935.

The accompanying essays offer a critical and historical reading of the photographs in the context of their wider universal repercussions.