Underexposed

 

Underexposed

 

Frida looking into mirror


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Object Details


Artist/Maker

Lola Álvarez Bravo, Mexican, 1907–1993

Date

1944

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with funds from Margaretta J. Taylor

Accession #

2012.278

Image Copyright

© Lola Alvarez Bravo/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Description

Lola Álvarez Bravo began photographing while assisting her husband, photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo, in his studio. After they separated, she committed to photography as a career and drew her subject matter from her surroundings, casting a compassionate lens on the people of Mexico, including the impoverished and those living in the margins of society. She was fast friends with legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and often photographed her; her gallery was also the first and only space to host an exhibition of Kahlo’s work in Mexico during her lifetime.