Álvarez Bravo, Lola

Arriving in Mexico City as a young girl, she learned photography from Manuel Álvarez Bravo, her husband from 1925 to 1934. Her body of work includes documentary images of indigenous, rural and urban settings. Notably, her focus on the human body, studies of form and composition, with sharp lines and light contrasts, as well as her foray into photomontage, stand out. In the 1950s, she founded the Contemporary Art Gallery, where she presented Frida Kahlo's first solo exhibition in 1953. In 1964, she had her first solo exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts, consisting of one hundred portraits of political and artistic figures of the time. A major retrospective of her work, "Lola Álvarez Bravo: Select Photographs 1934-1985" was organized by the Center for Cultural/Contemporary Art in 1992, accompanied by a significant catalog.