Adriana Lestido (born 1955) is an Argentine photographer. Her black-and-white photographs document the often difficult place of women in society.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Adriana Lestido: Metrópolis
- 1.2 Lo que se ve (Capital Intelectual) (Spanish Edition)
- 1.3 Lestido, Adriana. Madres e hijas.(Reseña de libro): An article from: Chasqui
- 1.4 Madres E Hijas (Spanish Edition)
- 1.5 La obra / The Work (Spanish Edition)
- 1.6 Interior / Inside (CI Fotografía) (Spanish Edition)
- 1.7 La Obra (CI FOTOGRAFÍA) (Spanish Edition)
- 1.8 MUJERES PRESAS (Spanish Edition)
- 1.9 Ashwagandha 1300mg Made with Organic Ashwagandha Root Powder & Black Pepper Extract - 120 Capsules. 100% Pure Ashwagandha Supplement for Stress Relief, Anti-Anxiety & Adrenal, Mood & Thyroid Support
- 1.10 SheIn Women's Elegant Mesh Contrast Bishop Sleeve Bodycon Pencil Dress Large White
Biography
Adriana Lestido was born in 1955 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She lives in Buenos Aires and Mar de las Pampas. Adriana Lestido studied photography at the Institute of Photographic Art and
Audiovisual Techniques in Avellaneda. From 1980 to 1995, she worked as a photojournalist for newspapers La Voz del Interior and Página/12, and the agency DyN. Photography is a tool that allows her to understand the obscurity of human relationships. The basic emotions give meaning to her black and white photographs of young person mothers, women prisoners, mother-daughter relationships, and love through abstract and misty landscapes. She has standard numerous awards and distinctions including a consent from the Hasselblad Foundation in 1991, the Mother Jones Foundation Prize in 1997, and the Grand Acquisition Prize at the Salón Nacional de Artes
Visuales in 2009. In 1995, she was the first Argentine photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim grant. In 2010 she was confirmed to be an outstanding cultural figure by the legislature of the city of Buenos Aires.
She is a highly committed college and organized photography workshops in Ezeiza women’s prison in 2007. Adriana Lestido is the author of several essays and books including Mujeres presas in 2001 and 2008, Madres e hijas in 2003, Interior in 2010, La Obra in
2011, and Lo Que Se Ve in 2012. In 2010 she was invited by Photo España to exhibit a retrospective, Amores Difíciles (Difficult Loves, photography 1979/2007) at the Casa de América, Madrid and to teach one of the PHE10 Masterclasses in Alcalá de Henares.
Her most recent individual exhibitions tote up Lo Que Se Ve (What Can Be Seen), exhibited for the first times in 2008 in the Cronopios hall at the Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), Adriana Lestido. Fotografías 1979/2007, shown at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina amongst May and July 2013, Lo Que Se Ve (What Can Be Seen), exhibited in 2014 at the Art Gallery, Consulate General and Promotion Center of the Argentine Republic, New York, USA.
Last update 2021-08-06