Tony Mendoza (photographer)

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Antonio Mendoza (2007)
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.

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