Juan Guzmán (born Hans Gutmann,Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon – Photographer Biographies
Tacoma Art Museum. Retrieved 7 January 2014. also known as "Juanito"; 28 October 1911 – 6 November 1982Gutmann, Hans 1911-1982
WorldCat Indentities. Retrieved 7 January 2014.) was a German-born

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. He was known as a war photographer of the Spanish Civil War and later on his work with Mexican painters

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and Diego Rivera.

Life

Hans Gutmann was born in Cologne.Photographing the Lost Mural of Diego Rivera
In the Darkroom. Retrieved 7 January 2014. In 1936 he joined the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer of the

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. Gutmann later became a Spanish citizen and changed his name to Juan Guzmán."El instante luminoso: los artistas plásticos a través de la mirada fotográfica de Juan Guzmán", Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2014. There are more than 1,300 photographs from the Spanish Civil War in the archive of Agencia EFE (Madrid). His most famous image is the picture of 17-year-old

Marina Ginestà Marina Ginestà i Coloma (29 January 1919 – 6 January 2014) was a French-born Spanish communist, a member of the Unified Socialist Youth, and an iconic figure of the Spanish Civil War. She became famous due to the photo taken by Juan Guzmá ...

standing in top of Hotel Colón in Barcelona. It is one of the most iconic photographs of the Spanish Civil War. After the war Guzmán fled to Mexico, where he arrived in 1940. He worked for major Mexican magazines and newspapers and became a friend of

with whom Guzmán shared similar political views. In the 1950s he took many photographs of Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera. Guzmán also photographed the artwork of Mexican painters like

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, Jesús Reyes Ferreira and

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. Juan Guzmán died in Mexico City in 1982.

Archive

Juan Guzmán's archive consists of about 170,000 photographs. Part of the material remained, while Guzmán was still alive, in the hands of the media where he had worked. In addition, he sold parts of his archive (for example, a series of 2000 pieces on Mexican art was sold by him to the INBA in the 1970s). The rest he left to his wife Teresa Miranda as an inheritance, and she sold the archive to the Televisa Foundation in 2006. There are only a few series held in other hands, such as the 2000 negative images sold to EFE in 1987; various photographic works related to Mexican art sold to UNAM in the early 1990s; photos about foot and mouth disease and other rural subjects, to the

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References

1911 births 1982 deaths Photographers from Cologne German emigrants to Mexico Mexican photographers Spanish Civil War photographers German people of the Spanish Civil War {{Germany-photographer-stub