Paulina Lavista was born on 1 November 1945 and is a Mexican photographer, noted for her controversial work which has tested the limits of the field.
20 Facts About Paulina Lavista
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Paulina Lavista is the daughter of a composer and a painter, beginning a career in modeling and cinema before moving into photographic work in the 1960s.
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Paulina Lavista began with portrait work, with one of her first clients being longtime partner Salvador Elizondo, and later breaking into more artistic work with a series of nudes for the magazine Su Otro Yo.
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Paulina Lavista has photographed many subjects from the Mexican art scene as well as images of people in every day activity, mostly in Mexico.
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Paulina Lavista's father composed music for the cinema and she grew up around music from Chopin to opera to Elvis Presley as well as the visual arts.
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Paulina Lavista was the second of four children, with an older sister dying of typhoid fever.
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Paulina Lavista thought of being a writer growing up but remembers being fascinated by a photograph of a ballerina in mid-air.
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Paulina Lavista always had problems at school, attending middle and high school in five different schools before entering the.
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Paulina Lavista was the first class of the new institution, with Jaime Humberto Hermosillo.
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Paulina Lavista had success in this, appearing in commercials for chewing gum and hair dye.
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Paulina Lavista continued with cinema, she worked on production of Fando y Lis by Jodorwsky and Mariana by Juan Guerrero.
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Paulina Lavista was a production manager with Publicidad Ferrer and during the 1968 Summer Olympics she coordinated visual works.
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Paulina Lavista was drawn to photography at age fifteen, dreaming of working for National Geographic or Playboy magazine.
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Paulina Lavista became frustrated with the cinema industry and began to take portraits at age eighteen.
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Paulina Lavista has photographed other notable figures such as Octavio Paz, Juan Jose Gurrola, Ofelia Medina, Maria Felix, Juan Jose Arreola, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Emilio Fernandez.
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Paulina Lavista has done a number of self-portraits, alone or with partner Salvador Elizondo.
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In 1968 Paulina Lavista was the Assistant Production Supervisor for the 1968 film on the Olympic Games held in Mexico City that year.
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Paulina Lavista had her first exhibition of her artistic photography, called Photemas, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
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Paulina Lavista does diverse themes but movement is a prevailing element, shown in images such as that of ballerinas or flying birds.
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Paulina Lavista is noted for photographs of people in everyday scenes, mostly in Mexico City, but in other areas of Mexico such as Alvarado, Veracruz, Tepoztlan, Guanajuato, various scenes in Quintana Roo as well as New York, Guatemala and Colombia.