Lola Álvarez Bravo

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Lola Álvarez Bravo , née Dolores Martínez Vianda, also Martínez de Anda (born April 3, 1907 in Lagos de Moreno , Jalisco ; † July 31, 1993 in Mexico City ) was one of the first photographers in Mexico and alongside Tina Modotti , Frida Kahlo , Diego Rivera and her husband Manuel Álvarez Bravo were one of the key figures in Mexico's post-revolutionary cultural bloom.

life and work

Lola Álvarez Bravo spent her childhood and youth in Mexico City. In 1925 she married Manuel Álvarez Bravo, from whom she learned photography. During this time she also made the acquaintance of many important Mexican artists, including the painters Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco , Diego Rivera, and Rufino Tamayo, as well as the circle of poets known as Los Contemporáneos . Inspired by photographers like Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, who also worked in Mexico for a long time, Lola Álvarez Bravo developed her own style and a career independent of her husband.

After separating from Manuel Álvarez Bravo in 1934, she lived with the painter María Izquierdo for a while. In 1944 Lola Álvarez Bravo had her first solo exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

In 1951 she opened the Galeria de Arte Contemporáneo , where Frida Kahlo had her first and only solo exhibition in Mexico in 1953. Álvarez Bravo has also taught at the prestigious Academia de San Carlos .

In 1955 Lola Álvarez Bravo took part in the trend-setting photography exhibition The Family of Man , which was shown worldwide for many years and which was organized by Edward Steichen in the Museum of Modern Art , New York.

Her estate is located in the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona at Tucson , the National Museum of Women in the Arts , Washington, DC, and the Portland Museum of Art .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1943 Mexico Art Today , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
  • 1955 Family of Man , National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York
  • 1992 Lola Alvarez Bravo: Fotografias Selectas 1934-1985 , Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporaño, Mexico City (retrospective)
  • 1996 Lola Alvarez Bravo: In Her Own Light , Americas Society Art Gallery, New York (retrospective)

Publications

  • Escritores y Artistas: Fotografias de Lola Alvarez Bravo , Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1982
  • Recuento fotografico , Editorial Penélope, 1982
  • Lonely encounters. Lola Alvarez Bravo photographs Frida Kahlo. published by Erika Billeter, Benteli Publishing Agency, 1997
  • Lola Alvarez Bravo. edited by Elizabeth Ferrer, Aperture, 2006
  • Lola Alvarez Bravo: In Her Own Light. Olivier Debroise, University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography, 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography National Museum of Women in the Arts
  2. ^ Kristin G. Congdon, Kara Kelley Hallmark: Artists from Latin American Cultures: A Biographical Dictionary . An Oryx book. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31544-2 ( Google Books ).
  3. ^ Lola Alvarez Bravo: Fotografias selectas 1934-1985 , catalog for the exhibition, Fundacion Cultural Televisa, 1992
  4. ↑ Photography Review; Images of Mexican Life, From Trite to Exuberant by Charles Hagen, In: New York Times , February 2, 1996
  5. ^ Frida Kahlo: Portrait of an Icon National Portrait Gallery, London 2005
  6. ↑ Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ccborges.org.ar
  7. ↑ Perfume de mujer - Fotografia messicana Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Brescia, 2006
  8. ^ Lola Alvarez Bravo (1903-1993) ( Memento from August 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Portland Museum of Art , 2008
  9. ^ S. Dillon Ripley Center, 2008
  10. ^ The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today Museum of Modern Art , 2010
  11. ^ Angels of Anarchy. Woman Artists and Surrealism ( Memento from May 28, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) Manchester Art Gallery, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Álvarez Bravo, Lola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martínez de Anda, Dolores; Martínez Vianda, Dolores
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagos de Moreno , Jalisco
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1993
Place of death Mexico city