Tony Mendoza
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Tony Mendoza was born in 1941 in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 he moved to Miami with his family. His is a photographer of some repute, and graduated from Yale (Bachelor of Engineering) and Harvard (Master of Architecture). He started as a full time photographic artist in 1973. He 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 photgraphs have featured in many major museums.
His most famous book, "Ernie", is a photographic memoir centred around a Cat he met when he moved in to an apartment in New York).
[edit] Bibliography
- Ernie : a photographer's memoir, 1985, (ISBN 0-88496-240-7)
- Stories, 1987, (ISBN 0-87113-146-3)
- Dogs : a postcard book, 1995, (ISBN 0-88496-397-7)
- Cuba-- : going back, 1999, (ISBN 0-292-75232-6)
- Tony Mendoza : photographs, words, video, (written by Mendoza, edited by Louisa Bertch Green), 2003, (ISBN 0-918881-49-8)
