A Pedro con cariño / To Pedro With Love

Mexico City

1995

Silver gelatin print

Yolanda Andrade

 

Yolanda Andrade was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco in 1950, an only child. In 1968, she moved to Mexico City to attend language courses and theatre workshops; but as her interest in acting waned she became involved in the camera club of Mexico, and she soon decided photography was the field she wished to pursue. During a very critical time in her development as a photographer in 1976 and 1977, she was enrolled at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York.

Andrade has worked steadily in the intervening years as a still photographer for Mexican film production companies, a freelance magazine photographer, a photography instructor and a staff photographer at Editorial Provenemex. She has twice received grants from the National Endowment for Culture and Arts in Mexico and in 1994 was the recipient of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. She has published two books; Los Velos Transparentes, Las Transparencias Veladas and Pasión Mexicana, Mexican Passion.

Her photographs have been widely exhibited in one-woman and group shows in Mexico, the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and are in the collections of museums in California, Texas, Japan, and Mexico. Andrade has recently begun to photograph in color as well as black and white. She lives and works in Mexico City. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to have acquired sixty-four of her images so far.

SOURCE Los Velos Transparentes, Las Transparencias Veladas (Instituto de Cultura de Tabasco, 1988)