Sara Facio (born 18 April 1932) is an
Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
photographer. She is best known for having photographed, along with
Alicia D'Amico
Alicia D’Amico (October 6, 1933 – August 30, 2001) was an Argentine photographer. She was born in Buenos Aires, where her family had a photographic business. She ran a very productive studio with Sara Facio for twenty years. She published pho ...
, various cultural personalities, including Argentine writers
Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ent ...
,
María Elena Walsh
María Elena Walsh (1 February 1930 – 10 January 2011) was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician, playwright, writer and composer, mainly known for her songs and books for children. Her work includes many of the most popular children's boo ...
and
Alejandra Pizarnik
Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been ...
.
Facio also was instrumental in establishing a publishing house for photographic work in Latin America and for the creation of a prominent photographic exhibition space in Argentina.
Biography
Facio was born in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
in 1932.
She graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1953.
Later, she worked as an assistant to
Annemarie Heinrich and started taking her own photographs in 1957.
In 1960 Facio and
Alicia D'Amico
Alicia D’Amico (October 6, 1933 – August 30, 2001) was an Argentine photographer. She was born in Buenos Aires, where her family had a photographic business. She ran a very productive studio with Sara Facio for twenty years. She published pho ...
opened a photography studio together. Facio co-founded
La Azotea with
María Cristina Orive María Cristina Orive (1930/1931 – 2 September 2017) was a Guatemalan photographer who has worked as a photojournalist. Together with Sara Facio, she founded the Buenos Aires publishing house La Azotea which specializes in publishing the work of L ...
in 1973.
La Azotea was the first publishing house printing photo books in
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
.
In 1985, Facio established the Fotogalería of the Teatro Municipal General San Martín, which has become of the most prominent photographic exhibition spaces in Argentina.
Facio served as the director of the gallery until 1998.
In 1996, Facio illustrated ''Manuelita,'' a book of poetry by
María Elena Walsh
María Elena Walsh (1 February 1930 – 10 January 2011) was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician, playwright, writer and composer, mainly known for her songs and books for children. Her work includes many of the most popular children's boo ...
. A large exhibition of her work, taken between 1972 and 1974 and focusing on the effect that
Juan Domingo Perón had on the country, was shown at the
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires ( es, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, MALBA) is a museum located on Figueroa Alcorta Avenue
Avenida Figueroa Alcorta is a major thoroughfare in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a lengt ...
, MALBA, in 2018. She was granted the Platinum
Konex Award from Argentina in 1992.
Her work is in the collection of the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
, MoMA.
Sara Facio donated 25% of the photographs that make up the photographic heritage of the
National Museum of Fine Arts from her personal archive.
References
1932 births
Living people
Argentine photographers
Portrait photographers
Argentine publishers (people)
Lesbian artists
LGBT artists from Argentina
Argentine women photographers
Illustrious Citizens of Buenos Aires
People from San Isidro, Buenos Aires
20th-century Argentine women artists
21st-century Argentine artists
20th-century photographers
21st-century photographers
20th-century women photographers
21st-century women photographers
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