Agustín Jiménez

Agustín Jiménez (1901-1974) was a pioneer in modern Mexican photography and cinematography and was, along with his contemporary Manuel Alvarez Bravo, one of the protagonists of the Mexican photographic avant-garde in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Photography Born in Mexico City, Jiménez became at age 25 the official photographer of the National School of Fine Arts, where he also taught the photography course. until the 1920s and incorporated visual elements that included abstract compositions of everyday objects, textures, games of shadows and reflections, and the use of geometric patterns, repetititon and complex camera framing of the image. he later became a still photographer and then a cinematographer for Mexico's burgeoning film industry, collaborating on more than 200 films (Agustín Jiménez and the Mexican Photographic Avant-Garde), authored by the Mexican curator and art historian Carlos Córdova.

Death Jimenez died in 1974 in Mexico City.