The Poetry of Everyday Life

“The greater the photographer’s sensitivity and human qualities, the greater the value of their message,” asserted Alicia D’Amico (Buenos Aires, 1933–2001), one of the most prominent Argentine photographers of the 20th century. Through her images, the artist drew poetic value from the elements and events of everyday life, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary and revealing beauty in the commonplace. Her photographs offer a profound reflection on human existence. A founder of the Argentine Council of Photography and, together with Cristina Orive and Sara Facio, co-founder of La Azotea—a pioneering Latin American publishing house devoted to photography books—her work is recognized both for her portraits of writers such as Alejandra Pizarnik, Olga Orozco, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, and Julio Cortázar, and for her series Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (1968), Humanario (1977), and Podría ser yo. Los sectores urbanos en imágenes y palabras (1987).

Courtesy of Alicia D'Amico Estate & Rolf Art Gallery