Date of Award
Fall 1-5-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Harper Montgomery
Second Advisor
Lynda Klich
Academic Program Adviser
Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Abstract
Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–1993), a Mexican photographer, photojournalist, portraitist, and teacher created approximately thirty photomontages during the span of her fifty-year career. This thesis argues that Álvarez Bravo turned to photomontage during targeted periods of her career in order to contest and challenge prevailing discourses on motherhood and femininity. A close analysis of eight photomontages produced between 1935 to the last printed in 1958 make evident the manifold ways Álvarez Bravo represented gender as a contested, political, and personal concern.
Recommended Citation
Hernandez, Alana, "Contesting Representations of Gender and Womanhood in Mexico The Photomontages of Lola Álvarez Bravo, 1935–1958" (2018). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/289
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