HÉCTOR GARCÍA
Ciudad de México / Mexico City
Born on August 23, 1923 and raised in an impoverished district of Mexico City, Héctor García's interest in photography grew out of his social consciousness. García first began taking pictures in the 1930s to document protests by the working-class. At the Instituto de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, he studied with Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa. While there, García made a conscious effort to inform others of the plight of the working class, organizing a newspaper using his photographs of student marches and related social events. García then spent time traveling and working in northern Mexico and the eastern United States. Social criticism continued to characterize García’s images. After working as a photojournalist for Mexican and international publications, he became involved with filmmaking and has since earned prestigious awards for his various endeavors in cinematography. In 2002 he was awarded the prestigious Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in Mexico. García lives in Mexico City with his wife María. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to include seventy-two of his original images to date in our collection.
SOURCE J. Paul Getty Museum www.gettymuseum.edu, Other images: Other realities (Rice U, 1990). and Zonezero www.zonezero.com
PHOTO Héctor García, 1958 from Luna córnea (no.26)