Monica Bravo

Assistant Professor

University of Southern California

US

Biography

Monica Bravo specializes in the history of photography and modern art of the Americas. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Center for Creative Photography, Georgia O'Keeffe Research Center, Getty Research Institute, Harry Ransom Center, Huntington Library and Art Collections, Terra Foundation, and Wyeth Foundation. She is an inaugural co-chair of Photography Network.

Articles (1)

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Modernist Photography in Mexico: Networks of Migration

As active participants in the Mexican cultural renaissance, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Manuel Álvarez Bravo engaged in a global discourse of modernism through transatlantic connections. Networks of migration in, out, and around these three artists show that Mexico City was a modernist center rivaling Paris and New York in the interwar period.