Juan Guzmán (photographer)

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Juan Guzmán (born Hans Gutmann,[1] also known as "Juanito",[2] 28 October 1911 – 6 November 1982[2]) was a German born Mexican photojournalist. He was known as a war photographer of the Spanish Civil War and later on his work with Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

Life[]

Marina Ginestà at the top of Hotel Colón in Barcelona, 21 July 1936.

Hans Gutmann was born in Cologne.[3] In 1936 he joined the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer of the International Brigades.[4] Gutmann later became a Spanish citizen and changed his name to Juan Guzmán.[5] There are more than 1,300 photographs from the Spanish Civil War in the archive of Agencia EFE (Madrid). His most famous image is the picture of 17-year-old Marina Ginestà standing in top of Hotel Colón in Barcelona. It is one of the most iconic photographs of the Spanish Civil War.[6]

After the war Guzmán fled to Mexico, where he arrived in 1940.[5] He worked for major Mexican magazines and newspapers and became a friend of Frida Kahlo with whom Guzmán shared similar political views.[1] In the 1950s he took a large number of photographs of Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera.[3] Guzmán also photographed the artwork of Mexican painters like Gerardo Murillo, Jesús Reyes Ferreira and José Clemente Orozco.[5] Juan Guzmán died in Mexico City in 1982.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon – Photographer Biographies Tacoma Art Museum. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Gutmann, Hans 1911-1982 WorldCat Indentities. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Photographing the Lost Mural of Diego Rivera Archived 2015-03-13 at the Wayback Machine In the Darkroom. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Exhibition explores dark era of the Spanish Civil War". Deutsche Welle. 1 April 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c "El instante luminoso: los artistas plásticos a través de la mirada fotográfica de Juan Guzmán", Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  6. ^ "Muere en París Marina Ginestà, la miliciana que fue un icono de la Guerra Civil" (in Spanish). Radio y Televisión Española. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.


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