The photo references illustrating the activity of the Café de Nadie show only a minimal part of the environment, devoid of any people; thus the value of press chronicles like this one. Estridentismo, early Mexican avant-garde movement, appeared in 1921, parallel to the muralist movement. Its creator and for a time only member was Manuel Maples Arce (1898-1981), a poet from Veracruz rebelling against modernist poets and academic painting. Having an affinity with Dadaism, Futurism, Ultraism, and Creationism—in both its European and Latin American manifestations—estridentismo was a movement focused on strategies of disruption, and an unrestricted attachment to a mechanical aesthetics. The followers of the movement encouraged a new urban sensory awareness, where experiences are crowded in simultaneity at the rhythm and speed of modern life. The very name of the movement itself refers to the noise of cities, as well as to their wish to be heard because of their embedded transgressions and excesses.It was a movement of artists dedicated to literature, music, painting, engraving, photography, and sculpture. Its center of operations was El Café de Nadie in Mexico City. Later on, it moved to the city of Xalapa (Veracruz) where its members got involved in an educational revolution. It also included several publications such as the magazines: Ser, Irradiador, and Horizonte.