Thursday, June 28, 2012

Photography Friday: Photography in Mexico at the SFMOMA


Lourdes Grobet

In walking around San Francisco, I kept seeing posters for the Photography in Mexico exhibit at the SFMOMA.  Photography? Old love.  Mexico? My new love.  I didn't catch the exhibit (48 hours in San Francisco is just not enough I tell you) but wanted to share a few of the works that they featured.  The whole exhibit is a selection of Mexican photography from 1920's until the present and has a special collection of photographs from the Northern Border territories (maybe in the next retrospective we'll see Michelle Frankfurter included) The one thing that I find very exciting about this exhibit though is that many of the works seem to be from Mexican photographers - often times here when I've been exposed to photography of Mexico, it is actually Americans who are doing the photographing.  I think it would be fascinating how the works might change (or might not) when it's not from the lens of foreigner looking in.

The show runs until July 8th  -  let me know if anyone makes it. I'd love to hear more!

Graciella Iturbide

Lola Alvarez Bravo

Edward Weston

Alejandro Cartagena

All photographs via SFMOMA.

1 comment:

  1. Love this post, it made me think of my childhood in Mexico. Thanks so much for sharing.

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