Garduño, Antonio

Antonio Garduño was a Mexican portrait photographer. Although known as the photographer of brides, Antonio Garduño was not limited to only that type of photography. His work diversified among portrait photography, photojournalism, and artistic photography. Coming from a family of artists, he entered the former Academy of San Carlos alongside his brothers: the painter Alberto Garduño and Alfonso Garduño, also a photographer dedicated to photomechanical reproduction. His earliest photographic works date back to 1903 when he took photographs for Antonio Fabrés' nude class within the former Academy of San Carlos. In 1911, he was a board member of the newly founded Society of Press Photographers, which allowed him to get close to key figures in photojournalism such as the Cassasola Brothers, with whom he recorded significant events during the Mexican Revolution. His works as a photojournalist appeared in publications such as El Diario, Revistas de Revistas, La ilustración Semanal, Novedades, Revista Ovaciones, Revista del automóvil, and finally in 1931 in Helios magazine where he worked as an editor. The photographer's work remains scattered across various photographic archives, with the series of nudes of Nahui Olin being the most representative and well-known of his work. He remained active in the field of photography until the 1950s.