Description
An outstanding exploration of a photographer, educator, and curator whose work both documented and created change in post-Revolutionary Mexico
This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Alvarez Bravo (1903-1993), one of Mexico's foremost photographers. Alvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, portraitist, and educator and played a critical role in her country's cultural renaissance. In the years following the Mexican Revolution, she captured a profoundly transformative moment for the country's land, architecture, and people. She remains best known for these works and for her portraits of prominent modernists working in Mexico, including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Lola Alvarez Bravo delves into a lesser-known body of work, in which attention to pattern, light, and abstraction guides the artist's depictions of urban and rural landscapes and their inhabitants. It also addresses her role in building and securing the legacy of the post-Revolutionary period, her dialogue with modernist photographers, and her place within the broader cultural sphere, offering new insight into the mutual influence she shared with prominent painters, filmmakers, and literary figures of her time.
Published in association with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
About the Author
Book Information
ISBN 9780300238709
Author Stephanie Weissberg
Format Hardback
Page Count 96
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
Weight(grams) 871g
This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Alvarez Bravo (1903-1993), one of Mexico's foremost photographers. Alvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, portraitist, and educator and played a critical role in her country's cultural renaissance. In the years following the Mexican Revolution, she captured a profoundly transformative moment for the country's land, architecture, and people. She remains best known for these works and for her portraits of prominent modernists working in Mexico, including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Lola Alvarez Bravo delves into a lesser-known body of work, in which attention to pattern, light, and abstraction guides the artist's depictions of urban and rural landscapes and their inhabitants. It also addresses her role in building and securing the legacy of the post-Revolutionary period, her dialogue with modernist photographers, and her place within the broader cultural sphere, offering new insight into the mutual influence she shared with prominent painters, filmmakers, and literary figures of her time.
Published in association with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Exhibition Schedule:
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis
(09/14/18-02/16/19)
About the Author
Stephanie Weissberg is assistant curator at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis. Karen Cordero Reiman is an art historian and curator based in Mexico City and professor emerita, Universidad Iberoamericana.
Book Information
ISBN 9780300238709
Author Stephanie Weissberg
Format Hardback
Page Count 96
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
Weight(grams) 871g
