September 22, 2012 – January 27, 2013
TEMPORARY GALLERY A
Lola Álvarez Bravo: La fotografía de una época
September 22, 2012 – January 27, 2013
Curated by Adriana Zavala and Rachael Arauz, and James Oles (consulting curator)
Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) was one of Mexico’s most prolific photographers, with a career that spanned nearly fifty years and combined commercial practice and teaching with more personal artistic concerns. She has been the subject of several exhibitions and publications in both Mexico and the U.S. since the 1990s, but she remains historically overshadowed by her famous husband, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and their contemporaries Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. Given her obvious importance, we still have much to learn about Lola’s contributions to the development of modern Mexican photography. This will be the first exhibition of the artist organized in Mexico City since the 1992 show Lola Álvarez Bravo: fotografías selectas 1934-1985 at the Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo.
Soon after her death, a significant part of Lola’s archive, including negatives, documents, and over 100 prints, was acquired by the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, from her son Manuel Álvarez Bravo Martínez. However, a previously unknown portion of Lola’s archive remained in Mexico and is now in the possession of the Rendón family. This recently discovered group of photographs, negatives, and archival material includes not only a significant body of work by Lola, much of it unpublished, but also over twenty vintage prints by Manuel and a group of images by Lola’s students at the Academy of San Carlos, including Mariana Yampolsky and Raúl Conde.
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Exhibition View: Lola Álvarez Bravo: La fotografía de una época. MoLAA, 2012 – 2013.
Photo: Magdalena Guillén