Jiménez, Agustín

A representative of the Mexican avant-garde, his work reinterprets the pictorialist movement through intense technical and formal experimentation. Since 1926, he was the official photographer of the National School of Fine Arts, where he taught a photography course. He collaborated with Mexican illustrated press in the twenties and thirties; in the latter decade, he became involved with the national film industry, first as a photographer and later as a filmmaker. He worked with Sergéi Eisenstein, Adolfo Best Maugard, and Fernando de Fuentes. In 1931, he won second place in the photography contest sponsored by the La Tolteca cement factory. During the first two years of the thirties, he contributed to Excelsior, Revista de Revistas, and Mexican Life. His work was also published in Cuba, the United States, and England, and his pieces were exhibited in New York and San Francisco.