Names: | | Dates: | 1942, 16 May - | Born: | Mexico, Mexico City | Active: | Mexico | Mexican photographer and filmmaker. High contrast black and white images of Central and South America rituals - with a particular emphasis on Zapotec women.Preparing biographies Biography provided by Focal Press Assistant to Manuel Alvarez Bravo. United her interests in anthropology and photography in a 1979 photo-essay on the matriarchal nature of Mexico’s Zapotec Indian community. This became her working model: getting to know her subjects and then using her access to examine the lives of Mexico’s indigenous peoples, their ceremonies and rituals, and the role of women. Her black and white images poetically document the interaction and tensions of urban and rural life, indigenous and modern culture, and social identity. Recent work centers on how people adapt to modernity and its effect on the landscape in other South American countries. (Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer) Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
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