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Southern Exposure At Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Mexican photographers portray their culture with rare empathy and a sense of wonder. Museumgoers who invested the requisite shoe leather in last year’s sprawling blockbuster “Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries” can be excused for thinking they had thoroughly covered the subject. One art form that was missing from the San Antonio exhibit, however, was photography, which has been overshadowed by twentieth-century Mexican painting (see “Looking at Mexico,” TM, April 1991). But while Mexican photography hasn’t produced figures with the name recognition of muralists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siquieros, the medium has engaged some formidable talent as attested by “Contemporary Mexican Photography,” the survey on view through August 9 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Assembled by curator Anne Tucker from the museum’s own collection of Mexican photography, one of the largest in this country, the 91-piece sho

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