Galería de mexicanos, 100 fotos de Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Departamento de Artes Plásticas, 1965
→Escritores y artistas de México, fotografías de Lola Álvarez Bravo, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1982
→Ferrer Elizabeth, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Mexico/Madrid, Fondo de Cultura Económica/Turner, 2006
Lola Álvarez Bravo y la fotografía de una época, Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, México, 2012
→Lola Álvarez Bravo, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, 23 September – 12 December 2015
→Lola Álvarez Bravo : picturing Mexico, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, New Haven, 14 September 2018 – 16 February 2019
Mexican photographer.
Lola Álvarez Bravo learnt photography helping her husband, Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002; they married in 1925 and separated in 1934). Between 1935 and the late 1950s she made a living as a documentary photographer for various government agencies, including the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. She also taught art in SEP public schools. She used photomontage – El sueño de los pobres [The dream of the poor, 1935] and La capital de la República Mexicana [The capital of the Mexican Republic, 1946] – and created political propaganda as well as large scale photomontage murals for office buildings such as the Chrysler’s factory Auto-Mex (1954) and the Communications and Public Works Ministry building (SCOP 1954-1955), in Mexico City.