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8/1/2004

Lola!

Throckmorton Fine Art, New York

Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo

"Only what life placed in front of me" - Lola Alvarez Bravo

Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to "kick-off" the new year with a stunning exhibition: Lola! Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo. Ms. Bravo is acknowledged as a central figure in Mexican photography as this collection of her images will attest. She has attained her rightful place in the history of photography alongside Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, and her own ex-husband, the late Manuel Alvarez Bravo. She played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene, working in close collaboration with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Maria Izquierdo, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907 - 1993) approached photography from many different points of view. She worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, professional portraitist, and political artist. Over many decades she contributed to the cultural life of Mexico. Her long career as a working photographer produced thousands of prints that reveal a woman who took the medium seriously and to heart. Lola found her way to photography first through her partnership with Manuel and later as a stubbornly independent woman whose camera was both her livelihood and her means of portraying the life she found before her. Her vision had honesty, intelligence, and an organic, assured formal sense. For Lola Alvarez Bravo, the country of Mexico was most manifest in its people. Her populist aesthetic, refined but direct, was the locus of her sensibility.

Image: Hombre rana (Frog Man)
1949 vintage print
Gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 8 in.

January 8th - March 6th, 2004
GALLERY HOURS:
TUESDAY - SATURDAY
11 AM - 5 PM

THROCKMORTON FINE ART
The Hammacher Schlemmer Building
145 East 57th Street, 3rd Floor
New York NY 10022
Tel 212.223.1059
Fax 212.223.1937

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