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Call Number:

PH-02627

Collection Name:

Anita Brenner Photography Collection

Creator:

Álvarez Bravo, Manuel, 1902 - 2002, active 1920/1929 - 1990/1999

Barrios Martinez

Bernath, Úrsula, 1915 - 2011, active 1950 - 1959

Brehme, Hugo, 1882 - 1954

Brenner, Anita, 1905 - 1974

Casasola, Agustín Víctor, 1874 - 1938

Done, Otto, 1908-2005, 1905 -

Foto Hermanos Mayo, active 1930 - 1939

Foto Mantel, active 1926 - 1934

García, Héctor, 1923 - 2012

La Rochester, 1912 -

Lechuga, Ruth D., 1920 - 2004

Márquez, Luis, 1899 - 1978

Massart, Georges-Yves, 1932 -

Maya S., Agustín, 1914 - 1996

Méndez Avalos, Juan Crisóstomo, 1885 - 1962

Modotti, Tina, 1896 - 1942, active 1923 - 1929

Norman, James, 1912 - 1983

Pease, Marilu

Reger, Muriel

Weeks, Lowell, active 1950/1959 - 1980/1989

Weston, Edward, 1886 - 1958, active 1906 - 1958

Zamora, Guillermo, 1915 - 2002

No. of Items:

441 photographs

Span Dates:

1920s

Description:

The collection consists of photographs and an album belonging to journalist, art critic, and author Anita Brenner (American, born in Mexico, 1905-1974). There are 198 loose prints (2014:0025:0001-0198), many of which are by and/or attributed to Tina Modotti (Italian and American, 1896-1942) and/or Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958). Other photographers' work is represented in the collection and includes three photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002) and two by Hugo Brehme (German, 1882-1954, active in Mexico). Most works date to the 1920s and are of various Mexican works of art and decorative arts. The album (2014:0026:0001-0243) contains mounted and tipped in photographs as well as 18 laid in photographs of life and people in Mexico.

Accession No(s):

2014:0025:0001-0198; 2014:0026:0001-0243; Gifts of Michael Page, 2013 (13-12-015-G), and David Ian Page, 2014 (14-01-005-G).; Lot of 119 miscellaneous photographs from Anita Brenner's collection. Photographers include Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Otto Donne, Muriel Reger, Augustin Mayo, Guillermo Zamora, etc.; Lot of 77 photographs and one personal album from Anita Brenner's collection. Photographers include Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, and others

Anita Brenner Papers