Antonio Mendoza
Illustration — Antonio Mendoza (2007) Tony Mendoza (born 1941) is a Cuban-American photographer.
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Antonio Mendoza
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- 1941 · Havana.
- Nationality
- Cuba · United States
- Occupation
- photographer
- Education
- Yale University · Harvard University
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Illustration — Antonio Mendoza (2007) Tony Mendoza (born 1941) is a Cuban-American photographer.
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Antonio Mendoza studied at Yale University and Harvard University. Residence is recorded at Columbus. Employment is recorded with Ohio State University. Work by Antonio Mendoza is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
He was born as Antonio Mendoza in Havana and moved to Miami with his family in 1960. He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Engineering and Harvard with a Master of Architecture, before becoming a full-time photographic artist in 1973. Married to Maria del Carmen from Esperanza, Cuba, and they have two children Alex and Lydia. Mendoza taught in the photography department at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from 1988 until his retirement in 2013.
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Antonio Mendoza was born on 21 July 1941.
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His most famous book, Ernie, is a photographic memoir centered on a cat he encountered when he moved into an apartment in New York City. Mendoza has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Photography Fellowship as well as two Creative Writing fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council. His photographs have featured in many major museums.
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- A Cuban Summer, 2013, ( )
- Ernie : a photographer's memoir, 1985, ( )
- Stories, 1987, ( )
- Dogs : a postcard book, 1995, ( )
- Cuba-- : going back, 1999, ( )
- Ernie : a photographer's memoir-expanded edition, 2001, ( )
- Flowers, 2007, ( )
- Tony Mendoza : photographs, words, video, (written by Mendoza, edited by Louisa Bertch Green), 2003, ( )
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