MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Sergei Eisenstein, Ernest Hemingway, Surrealism
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In 1929, her cuban lover, mella, was gunned down at her side on a mexico city street. She was framed for his murder (her letters describe this period) She was a scapegoat of government repression. She was publicly slandered in a sensational trial before being acquitted. She was then accused and framed for assassinating the. After this, in 1930, she was expelled from mexico. After that, she went to the soviet union. She mostly abandoned photography to work more fully for the communist party. She was in spain in the period of 1934 and 1936 to help in the brigadas internacionales, in the spanish civil war. She made contact also with ernest hemingway and robert. She died three years later, after a hard attack on january. Pp: manuel alvarez bravo, la buena fama durmiendo, His photos have a surreal aspect, though he was never an official member of surrealists, he had contact with them.
