Maestros mexicanos de la fotografia moderna

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Sep 29 2017 - Mar 4 2018

The mid-20th century was a time of great change in post-Revolutionary Mexico as the sociopolitical landscape struggled to find stability. In these decades of flux, many artists captured the country’s efforts to establish a unified Mexican cultural identity. Maestros mexicanos de la fotografia moderna focuses on five modernist photographers who documented this period: Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902–2002), Manuel Carrillo (Mexican, 1906–1989), Flor Garduño (Mexican, born 1957), Graciela Iturbide (Mexican, born 1942), and Mariana Yampolsky (Mexican, 1925–2002).

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

  • Photography
  • Latin American
  • 20th Century
  • Culture / Lifestyle
  • Mexico
  • Manuel Álvarez Bravo
  • Manuel Carrillo
  • Flor Garduño
  • Graciela Iturbide
  • Mariana Yampolsky

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