Alejandro Kuropatwa

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Alejandro Kuropatwa (1956–2003) was a famous Argentine photographer. Born in Buenos Aires, in a family of Jewish immigrants, in his youth he studied photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York) between 1979 and 1982. He then went back to Buenos Aires where he developed his career as a professional photographer. During the eighties and nineties, he became famous for his pictures of main Argentine rock stars such as Charly Garcia, Gustavo Cerati and Fito Páez. Due to his festive lifestyle and extravagant personality, he was know as the "Argentine Andy Warhol". Kuropatwa was also known for having survived AIDS for more than 20 years. He discovered the affection in 1984. After being close to death many times, a new generation of anti AIDS drugs stabilized his health and made him survive for many years. In 2002, Kuropatwa won the Konex Award as the most influential Argentine photographer of the nineties.^[1] That same year, Kuropatwa made a huge exhibit of his lifelong work at the Buenos Aires National Museum of Fine Arts. Kuropatwa died in 2003, at age 47.