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Instante/revelación: Moments in Mexican Photography
Exhibition
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
Exploring the rich tapestry of cultural and artistic dialogues that have shaped Mexico's photographic history, this exhibition features works by 13 prominent photographers, including Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Héctor García, Graciela Iturbide, and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, alongside key related publications. The photographs, donated by Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser to the Getty Museum over the past 25 years, record the instantes y revelaciones (instants and revelations) of a remarkable century of Mexican creativity.
Esta exposición examina el rico entramado de diálogos culturales y artísticos que han dado forma a la historia de la fotografía mexicana al presentar obras de trece destacados fotógrafos, entre ellos, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Héctor García, Graciela Iturbide y Pablo Oriz Monasterio, junto con publicaciones clave relacionadas. Las fotografías, donadas al Getty Museum por Daniel Greenberg y Susan Steinhauser a lo largo de los últimos veinticinco años, registran los instantes y revelaciones de un siglo extraordinario de creatividad mexicana.
This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Esta exposición se muestra en inglés y en español.
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Selected Works
Sombreros / Hats
1984, Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Gelatin silver print. Getty Museum. Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. © Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo, S.C.
Photograph from the series Desaparecen? / Do They Disappear?
2017, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Inkjet print. Getty Museum. Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. © Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
La espera / The Waiting Time
1980, Flor Garduño. Gelatin silver print. Getty Museum. Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. © Flor Garduño
En su propia cárcel / In Her Own Prison
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
Photograph from the series El baño de Frida / Frida’s Bathroom
2005; printed 2007, Graciela Iturbide. Dye imbibition print. Getty Museum. Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. © Graciela Iturbide
Diego y Siqueiros / Diego and Siqueiros
1957; printed 2004, Rodrigo Moya. Gelatin silver print. Getty Museum. Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. © Estate of Rodrigo Moya
El misterio / The Mystery
1988, Yolanda Andrade. Gelatin silver print. Getty Museum. Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. © Yolanda Andrade
Cementerio, Mina, Nuevo León / Cemetery, Mina, Nuevo Léon
1990; printed later, Mariana Yampolsky. Gelatin silver print. Getty Museum. Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. © Archivo Fotográfico Mariana Yampolsky, Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México
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Media Contact: Valerie Tate
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Lotería de Muertos (detail), 1983; printed 1993, Ricardo Valverde. Hand-colored gelatin silver print. Getty Museum. © Esperanza Valverde and Christopher Jude Valverde
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