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Sara Facio
Facio in 1995
Born(1932-04-18)18 April 1932
San Isidro, Argentina
Died18 June 2024(2024-06-18) (aged 92)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation(s)Photojournalist, publisher
Years active1957–2024
Partner(s)María Elena Walsh
(1978–2011; her death)
AwardsKonex Award (1992)

Sara Facio (18 April 1932 – 18 June 2024) was an Argentine photojournalist and publisher.[1] She was best known for having photographed, along with Alicia D'Amico, various cultural personalities, including Argentine writers Julio Cortázar, María Elena Walsh and Alejandra Pizarnik.[2] She co-founded the Centro Cultural la Azotea in 1973.[3]

Facio was instrumental in establishing a publishing house for photographic work in Latin America and for the creation of a prominent photographic exhibition space in Argentina.[4][5]

Career[edit]

Facio in 1968

Facio began working as an assistant to Annemarie Heinrich and started taking her own photographs in 1957.[6]

In 1960, Facio and Alicia D'Amico opened a photography studio together.[7] Facio co-founded La Azotea with María Cristina Orive in 1973.[3] La Azotea was the first publishing house printing photo books in Latin America.[3]

Following the 1978 "Latin American Colloquiums of Photography"[8] held in Mexico City, Facio worked with fellow artists to co-found the Argentine Photography Council [es] (Spanish: Consejo Argentino de Fotografía).[9][10]

In 1985, Facio established the Fotogalería of the Teatro Municipal General San Martín, which has become one of the most prominent photographic exhibition spaces in Argentina.[11][12] Facio served as the director of the gallery until 1998.[12]

"What I do in photography is to ensure that the day I die they do not say that a cow died but that a person who saw that died. And what I saw is in my photos. As if to say, 'This is my city, my people, the one I admire, the one I like.' That is my canon."

Sara Facio, in response to the question by Maria Moreno for Página 12 in 2000.[13]

One of her most notable works of photojournalism as her coverage of Peronism in Argentina during the 1970s.[5] She was noted for photographing marchers and protesters at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, which was different as most photojournalists focused their works through arial views of Casa Rosada.[5] During her career, she was also known for photographing Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Astor Piazzolla, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.[4]

In 1996, Facio illustrated Manuelita, a book of poetry by María Elena Walsh.[14] A large exhibition of her work, taken between 1972 and 1974 and focusing on the effect that Juan Domingo Perón had on the country, was shown at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, MALBA, in 2018.[15] She was granted the Platinum Konex Award from Argentina in 1992.[16]

Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA.[17]

Facio donated 25% of the photographs that make up the photographic heritage of the National Museum of Fine Arts from her personal archive.[18]

Aside from photography, Facio also wrote books and published more than twenty personal books from the time when she began writing in 1968.[16] She also published anthological books in 2012 and 2016.[16]

Gallery[edit]

Media related to Works by Sara Facio at Wikimedia Commons

Personal life[edit]

Facio standing in front of two of her works in 2019.

Facio was born in San Isidro, Argentina in 1932.[6] She graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1953.[6] Afterward, she received a scholarship from the French government and began residing in Paris, where she studied visual arts and photography.[16]

Facio was a lesbian.[19] Her partner was María Elena Walsh, from 1978 until her death in 2011.[20]

Facio died on 18 June 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the age of 92.[21][4]

Awards and honours[edit]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Text by Julio Cortázar. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana. 1968.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Neruda, Pablo (1973). Geografía de Pablo Neruda [Geography of Pablo Neruda] (in Spanish). Photographs by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Barcelona: Aymá. ISBN 978-84-209-0165-7.
  • Facio, Sara; D'Amico, Alicia (1973). Retratos y Autorretratos: Escritores de América Latina [Portraits and Self-portraits: Writers of Latin America] (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Text by various authors. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Crisis.
  • Facio, Sara; D'Amico, Alicia (1976). Cómo Tomar Fotografías [How to Take Photographs] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: La Azotea.
  • Humanario (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Text by Julio Cortázar. Buenos Aires: La Azotea. 1976.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Facio, Sara (1980). Actos de fe en Guatemala [Acts of Faith in Guatemala] (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and María Cristina Orive. Text by Miguel Ángel Asturias. Buenos Aires: La Azotea.
  • Facio, Sara, ed. (1981). Fotografia Argentina actual = Photographie Argentine actuelle = Argentinian Photography Today (in Spanish and English). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Azotea.
  • Facio, Sara; D'Amico, Alicia; Walsh, María Elena (1985). Fotografía Argentina: 1960–1985 (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Text by María Elena Walsh. Buenos Aires: La Azotea. ISBN 978-950-9536-02-9.
  • Facio, Sara (1988). Grete Stern (in Spanish and English). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Azotea. ISBN 978-950-9536-05-0.
  • Facio, Sara (1992). Retratos: 1960-1992 [Portraits: 1960-1992] (in Spanish and English). Text by María Elena Walsh. Buenos Aires: La Azotea. ISBN 978-950-9536-14-2.
  • Facio, Sara (1995). La Fotografía en la Argentina: Desde 1840 a nuestros días [Photography in Argentina: From 1840 to the present day] (in Spanish and English). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Azotea. ISBN 978-950-9536-17-3.
  • Facio, Sara, ed. (1996). Fotografía Argentina Actual DOS (in Spanish and English). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Azotea Editorial Fotográfica. ISBN 978-950-9536-19-7.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Viater, Nora (1 October 2011). "María Elena Walsh: adiós a la mujer que nos enseñó a ser chicos y nos hizo crecer" [María Elena Walsh: goodbye to the woman who taught us to be children and made us grow]. Clarin (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 March 2016.
  2. ^ M.L. Sougez; H. Pérez Gallardo (2003). Diccionario de historia de la fotografía. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra. p. 166. ISBN 84-376-2038-4.
  3. ^ a b c Sanchis, Verónica (30 November 2018). "Foto Féminas' Library – María Cristina Orive – 1931–2017". Foto-Feminas. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  4. ^ a b c "Murió Sara Facio, cronista visual de la cultura argentina en el siglo XX". Infobae. Archived from the original on 20 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  5. ^ a b c "Sara Facio". Art Forum.com. 10 April 2018. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  6. ^ a b c "Con osadía y técnica Sara Facio supo ver el mundo y abrir los ojos ajenos" [With daring and technique, Sara Facio knew how to see the world and open the eyes of others]. El Territorio Misiones (in Spanish). 10 April 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  7. ^ "Alicia d' Amico". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  8. ^ Rigat, Leticia (12 May 2020). "Los Coloquios Latinoamericanos de Fotografía y la reconfiguración de las prácticas fotográficas". Dixit (in Spanish) (32): 33–45. doi:10.22235/d.vi32.2108. ISSN 0797-3691. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  9. ^ Sougez, Marie-Loup; Pérez Gallardo, Helena (2003). Diccionario de historia de la fotografía. Cuadernos arte Cátedra (1 ed.). Madrid: Cátedra. p. 120. ISBN 978-84-376-2038-1.
  10. ^ "Murió Sara Facio, un ícono del arte y la fotografía argentina – La Voz del Pueblo" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  11. ^ Gigena, Daniel (15 November 2018). "El "túnel " del Teatro San Martín donde la fotografía cuenta su historia" [The "tunnel" of the San Martín Theater where photography tells its story]. La Nacion (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 March 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  12. ^ a b Foster, David William (2014). Argentine, Mexican, and Guatemalan Photography: Feminist, Queer, and Post-Masculinist Perspectives. University of Texas Press. pp. 140–141. ISBN 9780292768338. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2018 – via Project MUSE.
  13. ^ "LAS12- mirada de mujeres en Pagina/12". www.pagina12.com.ar. Archived from the original on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  14. ^ Trevino, Rose Zertuche (November 1996). "Children's Books in Spanish". School Library Journal. 42 (11): 134. Archived from the original on 20 June 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2018 – via EBSCOhost.
  15. ^ Centenera, Mar (12 March 2018). "La Argentina de los últimos 591 días de Perón, retratada por Sara Facio". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  16. ^ a b c d "FACIO SARA". Museo Moderno. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  17. ^ "Sara Facio". MoMA. Archived from the original on 3 November 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  18. ^ "8 fotos emblemáticas de la gran Sara Facio" [8 emblematic photos of the great Sara Facio]. Argentina Ministry of Culture (in Spanish). 17 April 2020. Archived from the original on 19 September 2021.
  19. ^ "Visibilidad de las mujeres queer en Argentina". Ella Global. 20 April 2021. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  20. ^ "Compromiso, pasión y humildad". Carasycaretas.org. 9 January 2023. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  21. ^ Zacharías, María Paula (18 June 2024). "Murió a los 92 años la fotógrafa Sara Facio, una personalidad insoslayable de la cultura argentina". La Nación. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  22. ^ a b "Sara Facio | Fundación Konex". www.fundacionkonex.org (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  23. ^ "Konex Awards 1992: Visual Arts | Konex Foundation". www.fundacionkonex.org. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  24. ^ "os ganadores del Premio a la Trayectoria del Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales 2019". cultura.gob.ar (in Spanish). 6 September 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2024.

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