MIGUEL GANDERT

Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe /

Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Miguel Gandert, a native of Española, New Mexico, is a fine art and documentary photographer and Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Gandert sees documentary work as both a form of art with considerable aesthetic merit and as a means to tell stories. The stories he has chosen to tell are primarily in the Spanish-speaking world of the southwest United States, Latin America and Spain. Miguel's photographs have been shown in galleries and museums throughout the world and  are in numerous public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection at Yale, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. His work was selected for the 1993 Whitney Museum Biennial, and his series, Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland, was the subject of a book and one-person exhibition for the National Hispanic Culture Center of New Mexico, in 2000. His most recent book with folklorist Dr. Enrique La Madrid, Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption was honored by the American Folklore Society with the Chicago Book Award as the best book of 2004. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to include fifty-two of his images to date.

SOURCE  University of New Mexico, http://laii.unm.edu/
PHOTO  Self-Portrait by Miguel Gandert, 1999 from www.andrewsmithgallery.com