Lola Álvarez Bravo «The photography of an era»

To Lola Alvarez Bravo the most interesting subjects to portray - as she once told Cristina Pacheco- weere first, beauty, and then, pain. Her whole theory, method, and working program were contained somewhere between these apparent extremes. Intense decades of creative work fall within this intersection, which has lets us with one of the founding and most endurign chapters in modern Mexican photography.