Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum aims to move beyond Euro-American historical narrative. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/678130/20th-century-women-photographers-get-their-due/ A famous, bikini-clad model reclines on the crystalline shore of a beach in Jamaica. The corpse of an SS prison guard floats down a river. Three boys play, chasing each…
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… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/09/picturing-mexico-through-the-eyes-of-lola-alvarez-bravo/ Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) was a singular figure in…
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…
