(Buenos Aires, 1954)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He started as a photographer at La Naci\u00f3n newspaper in 1977, where he worked until 1979. He then worked as a collaborator for the cultural supplement of La Prensa, and from 1983 to 1989 in the Programa Cultural en Barrios, photographing the city and its people, as a teacher and in the organization of courses and neighborhood photography workshops.
In 1988 he organized with other colleagues the Jornadas de Fotograf\u00eda Buenos Aires – La Plata, the first photography festival held in Argentina, and the first photographic reportage workshop held in La Plata, in 1989, as a corollary of the Jornadas. Between 1989 and 1991 he directed the project for the rescue and preservation of photographic archives for Fundaci\u00f3n Antorchas, designing an Argentine Photo Library and an archival program of national application. He was in charge of the realization of the Argentine photography collection for RaboBank, exhibited in 2011 at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and later donated to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. In 2019 he curated the
exhibition Mundo Propio: Fotograf\u00eda Moderna Argentina, which took place at MALBA.
In recognition of his work, he was twice awarded the Konex Prize (1992 and 2012), the Leonardo Lifetime Achievement Award (MNBA, 1996) and the First Prize at the Sal\u00f3n Nacional de Artes Visuales (2012). He participated with his photographs in the international art biennials of Buenos Aires (2000 and 2002), Mercosur (2000) and S\u00e3o Paulo (1991).
He lives in Buenos Aires and the city is the central theme in his work, published in the books Estampas Porte\u00f1as (1996), Siesta Argentina (2003), Cada vez te quiero m\u00e1s (2004), Buenos Aires: Coppola + Zuvir\u00eda (2006), Paran\u00e1 ra’ang\u00e1 (2013), Estampas (2015) and Frontalismo (2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":720,"template":"","tags":[213,279,268,333,260],"class_list":["post-1191","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-1980-1990-en","tag-fotografia-en","tag-ediciones-en","tag-urbanidad-en","tag-cultura-visual-en","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artistas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}