This page gathers photographers connected to Mexico and traces how each links to a period and movement in the history of photography.
Born in 1896 in Udine, northeastern Italy, Tina Modotti moved to San Francisco as a teenager and came to photography after working in theater and film. From 1923, she worked in …
Born in Mexico City, Manuel Álvarez Bravo transformed everyday life, the body, death, and urban streets into quietly charged photographic compositions during the era of …
Graciela Iturbide (born 1942) is a photographer from Mexico City. She studied film in 1969, then began photographing seriously after working as an assistant to Manuel Álvarez …
Artist and photographer with Mexican background, trained in Zurich and later working in Geneva and internationally.*1*2*3 Known for working with photographs, replicas, copies …
Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican artist whose work moves across photography, sculpture, drawing, and games, often beginning with objects encountered while walking, accidental …
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