YOLANDA ANDRADE
El niño y el fusil / The Child and the Rifle
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 soon decided photography was the field she wished to pursue. During a very critical time in her development as a photographer in 1976 and ‘77, 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, 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. In 1988, she produced a book of 41 photographs, Los Velos Transparentes, Las Transparencias Veladas with text by Carlos Monsiváis. Her second book, Pasión Mexicana, Mexican Passion, was published in 2002. 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 collection owns seventy-nine photographs making it the largest collection of her work in the U.S.
SOURCE Yolanda Andrade: Los Velos Transparentes, Las Transparencias Veladas (Instituto de Cultura de Tabasco, 1988)
PHOTO by Locketz, 1999