Frida with Dry Tree Branches, Coyoacan (1943)

We know the lady in the photo as the famous painter Frida Kahlo, but who is the person behind the camera taking the pictures?  Lola Alvarez Bravo a female [...]]]>

Frida with Dry Tree Branches, Coyoacan (1943)

We know the lady in the photo as the famous painter Frida Kahlo, but who is the person behind the camera taking the pictures?  Lola Alvarez Bravo a female Mexican photographer who took many photos of Frida, nudes and social subjects in Mexico.

“Lola Alvarez Bravo (1903–1993) is widely recognized as Mexico’s first woman photographer. A pioneering figure in the rise of modernist photography in Mexico, she was a profound humanist who used the camera to chronicle the people and places of her beloved country over a remarkable six-decade career.” source

“I look for the essence of beings and of things, their spirit, their reality. Interest, experience, moral and aesthetic commitment, form the third eye of the photographer. There are those who focus on the landscape; I feel attracted to human beings.” —Lola

Alvarez Bravo

A couple photos by Lola:

El ensueno (Isabel Villasenor) (The Dream [Isabel Villasenor]) (1941)

Triptico de los martirios II /Triptych of the Martyrs II (1950)

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