Tony Mendoza

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Antonio Mendoza (2007)

Tony Mendoza (b. 1941) is a Cuban-American photographer. He was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to Miami, Florida 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.

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.

His most famous book, Ernie, is a photographic memoir centered around a cat he encountered when he moved in to an apartment in New York City.

Mendoza is currently an instructor of photography at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

[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)