Picturing Mexico Through the Eyes of Lola Alvarez Bravo – Feature Shoot

Picturing Mexico Through the Eyes of Lola Alvarez Bravo – Feature Shoot

La visitacion, ca. 1934, printed 1971. Brooklyn Museum. Los almiares (Labores), ca. 1940. Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) was a singular figure in twentieth-century art, a woman whose independence defined the…

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Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) was a singular figure in twentieth-century art, a woman whose independence defined the spirit of the era. “I had a strange need for something and I didn’t know what it was. I was in intense rebellion against certain things that they thought I should do because I was a ‘little woman’ and a ‘young lady,’” Álvarez Bravo told Olivier Debroise for Sin título [Biography of Lola Álvarez Bravo] in 1979.