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Names:
Born: Dolores Martinez de Anda 
Born: Dolores Martinez Vianda 
Dates:  1907 - 1993
Born:  Mexico, Jalisco, Lagos de Moreno
Active:  Mexico
Gender:  Female
 
  
Mexican photographer.

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Internet biographies

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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer.Show on this siteGo to website
Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Lola Álvarez Bravo.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Lahs-Gonzales, Olivia & Lippard, Lucy 1997 Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century. Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection (Saint Louis Art Museum, D.A.P.) [Lola Álvarez Bravo is included in this overview of women photographers.] 
  
 

Quotations

The wit and wisdom.

 
"I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter."
 
  
 
  
 
  
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