Mexican Photographers Today: Facing a World in Transition Selected Works from the Margolis Foundation
Today the work of Mexican photographers is recognized at home and abroad for its excellence. The photographs included in this exhibit have been drawn from the extensive collection of the Margolis Foundation. Based in the United States, the foundation seeks to promote the work of contemporary Mexican photographers.
Addressing the role of the socially-committed documentary tradition in photography, this exhibition features works by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, its greatest exponent, as well as those of Rodrigo Moya, and Nacho Lopez. The broad range of subjects—rites of passage and religious performances, struggles in the belly of a megalopolis, cultural displacement and incongruous realities—are addressed from highly personal points of view and styles. The resulting images are at times provoking and disturbing; poetically evocative and beautiful—but always strongly engaging.
The Tucson Museum of Art gratefully acknowledges the generous support of:
Margolis Foundation
Kathy and Ronald Margolis
Latin American Art Patrons
Alice and Paul Baker
Betsy and Frank Babb
AdVision
Cindy and Rick Barrett
Peñasco Del Sol Hotel
Tucson Lifestyle Magazine
Joan Jacobson
Jean Schroeter
The Art Institute of Tucson
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
Mary Torrey Dooms
Margarita
and William Joffroy, Jr.
Brenda and Burt Lazar
