Lola Alvarez Bravo: In Her Own Light

Mis fotos, mis arte. Throughout her photographic career as a photojournalist, portraitist, and political photographer, Lola Alvarez Bravo kept a body of cherished images as her own art. In Her Own Light is devoted to her work as an artist and includes those photographs of Mexico, her true subject, that place her among the renowned photographic interpreters of that country in the modern period: Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Tina Modotti, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo. In her Own Light is the first overview of Lola Alvarez Bravo’s work published outside Mexico. Thirty-six of her photographs from the Center’s collection are presented in conjunction with a bilingual account of the experience and accomplishments of Lola Alvarez Bravo by art historian and Lola confidante Olivier Debroise. His elucidating and intimate essay, written in Spanish, is translates by James Oles. Also included are a chronology, selected bibliography, and a complete listing of the prints in the Lola Alvarez Bravo Collection as the Center for Creative Photography.