En su propia cárcel / In Her Own Prison (detail), 1950, Lola Álvarez Bravo. Gelatin silver print. Getty Museum. Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. © Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation
Join curator Julieta Pestarino to delve into the rich tapestry of cultural and artistic dialogues that have shaped the history of Mexican photography. The tour will take a close look at selected works as well as key publications through which many of these photographs originally circulated—images that capture the instantes y revelaciones (instants and revelations) of a remarkable century of Mexican creativity.
Curator tours in Spanish are available on select Wednesdays.
Wednesdays Sep 23 and Dec 9
Tuesdays Oct 6 and Nov 17
3pm
Assistant Curator
Julieta joined the Department of Photographs in 2024. She is an anthropologist and curator specializing in Latin American photography with a PhD in history and theory of arts from the University of Buenos Aires. Previously she was a graduate intern in the Curatorial Department (Latin American Art) of the Getty Research Institute, a fellow of the Bauhaus Lab Global Modernism Studies and the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin, and a postdoctoral researcher in the 4A_Lab program of the Kunsthistorisches Institut/Max Plank Institut in Florence. She authored the book Prácticas modernas: Fotografía y grupalidad en La Carpeta de los Diez (2023), and curated the exhibitions Julia Chambi, la primera fotógrafa andino-peruana (Peru, 2024), and Lo múltiple y lo único. Fotografía en expansion (Argentina, 2022), among others.
20
First-come, first-served
45 minutes
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