Venegas, José Luis

(Mexico 1944)

In 1972, José Luis and Julia Venegas opened their ‘Venegas Fine Photography’ studio, specializing in wedding portraits, in Tijuana, Baja California. Theirs was a novel proposal for the times: an album presenting color photographs of everything involved in the wedding, from the creation of the bride’s hair-do until the moment they left on their honeymoon. Their style and approach to their subjects characterized a specific social class, giving it a group identity.