Sara Facio (born 18 April 1932) is an

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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

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and

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. 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

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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. Borges facio 1968

In 1960 Facio and

opened a photography studio together. Facio co-founded La Azotea with

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in 1973. La Azotea was the first publishing house printing photo books in

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. 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

. 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

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, 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

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