Hugo Brehme, Ruinas de Guiaroo, Oaxaca, 1925.
“Hugo Brehme was born in Germany in 1882. Around 1905 a young German photographer named Hugo Brehme made his way to Mexico to photograph this fascinating and complex country. Although in his twenties, he already had mastered his expensive photographic equipment and had developed an artistic eye trained by photographic studies in Germany. Taking pictures of the people and places of Mexico soon became his life’s work and to this day, his work attracts fascinated interest from artists, photographers and collectors worldwide. Brehme would live in and travel around Mexico for almost all of his life. He even became a Mexican citizen shortly before his death. While Mexico had a strong impact on Brehme, he in turn had a profound influence on generations of Mexican photographers, beginning with Manuel Alvarez Bravo…”
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