My Aunt: Reva Brooks 1913-2004 Selected as one of the top 50 women photographers of all time by the San Francisco Art Museum in 1975, my aunt Reva(my father’s eldsest sister) and her husband, (renowned painter Leonard Brooks), moved to Mexico in 1947 and began their journey of exploring the vibrant Mexican culture through their art.
Through their 50-year stay in Mexico, they played a pinnacle role in establishing San Miguel de Allende as a world-renowned artist colony
At the age of 34, Reva picked up a camera and started recording the painted canvases of her husband. Within a few years of photographing the Mexican people throughout the countryside on painting trips with Leonard, Reva's compelling photographs came to the attention of leading U.S. photographers Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.
Here are some links to her photographs and biography.
