This exhibition presents nearly fifty photographs by Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–93), who played a critical role in Mexico’s modernist wave through her work as a photographer, educator, and curator. Picturing Mexico focuses on her personal artistic practice from the 1930s to the 1970s, when Álvarez Bravo traveled across the country producing iconic portraits of her fellow artists as well as lesser-known compositions that emphasize abstract form, pattern, and the play of light and shadow. Her pictures of people at work and at leisure, of buildings new and old, and of a diverse array of landscapes bring to life an era of profound transformation from the perspective of one of Mexico’s pioneering female photographers.
![Lola Álvarez Bravo's black and white print,](https://pulitzerarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/93.6.70_update.jpg)
Past Exhibition
Lola Álvarez Bravo: Picturing Mexico
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Lola Álvarez Bravo: Picturing Mexico is curated by Stephanie Weissberg, Associate Curator at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
Untitled, 1954 (Gelatin silver print, 9 x 7 inches; 23.7 x 19.5 cm). Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Lola Álvarez Bravo Archive. 93.6.70 © 2022 Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Untitled, 1954 (Gelatin silver print, 9 x 7 inches; 23.7 x 19.5 cm). Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Lola Álvarez Bravo Archive. 93.6.70 © 2022 Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York