{"id":6377,"date":"2012-09-17T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2012-09-24T04:41:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:41:23","slug":"mexican-photography-yolanda-andrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/mexican-photography-yolanda-andrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Photography – Yolanda Andrade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sin Titulo – Yolanda Andrade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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La Mujer Arana – Yolanda Andrade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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La Revelacion – Yolanda Andrade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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El y Ellas – Yolanda Andrade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yolanda Andrade – From Black and White to Color
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Yolanda was first known for her black and white photographs of Mexican culture and street life. Her work has a steady yet subtle sociological component: tracing the influences of Mexican media in popular arts and urban culture. \u00a0In 2003, after nearly 25 years of striclty using film, she started using a digital camera and incorporated color into her work. \u00a0At this stage she also looked beyond Mexico to Europe and India, and her work gained a new energy and a youthful perspective (look at the water lily image below!). \u00a0If not for a continued search of the magical in the mundane, it is sometimes hard to believe her work in color is from the same photographer as before.<\/p>\n

Her work both in color and in black and white is full of Mexican iconography. \u00a0La Muerte and Christ are repeated often and leads to an inevitable air of “Mexicanness” in her work. \u00a0In black and white the effect is poetically documentary. \u00a0In color it is sometimes quirky, and \u00a0at times seemingly naive, but close inspection reveals a meticulous eye for composition and symbolism.<\/p>\n

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La Taqueria, Xalapa – Yolanda Andrade 2006<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yolanda Andrade – Biography<\/h2>\n

Born in Villahermosa, Tabasco in 1955, Yolanda studied at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York during the 1970’s. Later she honed her skills in the film industry and as a free-lance photographer working for various magazines. \u00a0She used this experience as a professor of photography at the Centro de la Imagen, Tecnologico de Monterrey, and the Escuela de Fotografia Nacho Lopez.<\/p>\n

Yolanda established herself in the Mexican and international art scene during the 1990s, with a \u00a0grant from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and multiple awards and \u00a0grants from the Fondo Nacional paral la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA). \u00a0Her work is exhibited widely and has been seen in Europe, Japan, and the United States.<\/p>\n

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Mujer Lagarto – Yolanda Andrade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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El Altar del Arte – Yolanda Andrade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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La Calaca – Yolanda Andrade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Trofeos de Caza, Mexico – Yolanda Andrade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yolanda Andrade – Where to See Her Work<\/h2>\n

Website:\u00a0http:\/\/yolandaandrade.viewbook.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Gallery Representation\u00a0http:\/\/www.patriciacondegaleria.com\/PCG\/Yolanda_Andrade_Eng.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Water Lily – Yolanda Andrade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,1033,1065,1066],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6584,"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions\/6584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}