The Largely Unknown Photography of Lola Álvarez Bravo

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A Mexican Photographer, Overshadowed but Not Outdone

Lola Alvarez Bravo was overshadowed, and often hindered, by her more famous partner, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, yet a new book reveals that she was a formidable artist and photographer in her own right.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/a-mexican-photographer-overshadowed-but-not-outdone/

The year 2007 was a pretty good one for rediscovering long-forgotten images in Mexico. Most people already know about Robert Frank’s Mexican suitcase, a trove of his work from the Spanish Civil War. But that same year an unknown archive of vintage prints by Mexico’s greatest photographers was also discovered, left behind in the longtime home of Lola Álvarez Bravo.