Famed Latin American photographer Lourdes Grobet has passed away at age 81.
has passed away at age 81. Grobet is perhaps best known for her iconic images capturing the culture of “Lucha libre Mexicana” or Mexican professional wrestling.
Though becoming a fan through televised wrestling programs, her father never encouraged it, rebuffing her pleas to take her to an actual event. As an adult, Grobet began to not only capture the athletic spectacle of the events, but also the people behind the mask, who all too often felt more comfortable in their costumes, rather than out of them.
Born to Swiss and Mexican Parents, Grobet had an interest in art from an early age. She got her start in painting, having traveled to Paris to study with notable artists such as Mathias Goeritz, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, and Katy Horna, among others. However, she soon realized that the art world had grown stale in her eyes, and she sought a more contemporary way to express her artistic vision.
She turned to photography as a more contemporary way of capturing the world around her. In the 1970s, Grobet found notice with a pair of photography shows, Casa del Lago: A la mesa , a photomural of household appliances, and Hora y media , a show in which she walked across a wooden frame, tearing away aluminum foil while being photographed.
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