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Lola Álvarez Bravo, was a well-known first female Mexican photographer to be successful in what she does and in the field. Lola Alvarez Bravo was on April 3, 1903 in a small town called Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, which is at most two hours away from Guadalaraja. Later on around 1925, Lalo got married with another Mexican photogrpaher names Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who they grew up as being friends and neighbors. Lola would help her husband in the darkroom with the photographs that he would take, this lead her to be inspired of starting her work with photographs. Together the couple knew a lot Mexican artist like Jose Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo. Unfortuantely, the marriage did not last that long, it ended in the year of 1934. However, it was a start of a new beginning to her career of photography, her work was inspired by Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. Lola main focus of her photograph by capturing variety of subjects, documenting images that would occur in an everyday life in villages of Mexico, streets, and what people would do in their everyday life. In addition to her work, she also started experimenting with photomontage, which is essentially a group of pictures that relate to each other some sort of a way. Lola Alvarez Bravo decided to continue to progress her career by moving to Mexico City with her son and she would demonstrate her photographs  at the Palacia de Bellas Artes. As her work continue to become more recognized, she later on she became the Director of Photography at the National Institute of Fine Arts. Finally after her death, her photograph collection was presented at the University of Arizona in Tuscon.

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