She also experimented with photomontage.īorn Dolores Martínez in Jalisco, Mexico, Lola Álvarez Bravo was one of Mexico’s most important photographers. For 50 years, she photographed a wide variety of subjects, making documentary images of daily life in Mexico's villages and city streets and portraits of great leaders from various countries. Inspired by such photographers as Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, Álvarez Bravo established her own independent career. She also taught photography at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City. She opened an art gallery in 1951 and was the first person to exhibit the work of Frida Kahlo in Mexico City. She was the director of photography at the National Institute of Fine Arts. She also worked in commercial photography, including advertising and fashion. She also continued to experiment with photography and in 1936 received her first real commission photographing the colonial choir stalls of a former church. Lola Álvarez Bravo needed to support herself and taught as well as worked in a government archives. The Álvarez Bravo's separated in 1934 but she decided to maintain the Álvarez Bravo name. As he became more serious about pursuing a career in photography, she acted as his assistant, although she also harbored a desire to become a photographer in her own right. Manuel also taught her to develop film and make prints in the darkroom. Manuel had taken up photography as an adolescent he taught Lola and they took pictures together in Oaxaca. Lola Álvarez Bravo became pregnant but before she gave birth, they returned to Mexico City. They married in 1925 and moved to Oaxaca where Manuel was an accountant for the federal government. It was here that she met the young Manuel Álvarez Bravo, a neighbor. Her father died when she was a young teenager, and she was then sent to live with the family of her half brother, living nearby in Mexico City. She moved to Mexico City as a young child, after her mother left the family under mysterious circumstances. She was born Dolores Martinez de Anda to wealthy parents in the state of Jalisco.
She was a key figure (along with Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and her husband Manuel Álvarez Bravo) in Mexico's post-revolution renaissance. Lola Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican photographer.
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