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Jack Delano, 1914-1997
Ukrainian-born, U.S.-raised photographer Jack Delano was hired by the Farm Security Administration in 1940 to document workers' lives on the East Coast, Chicago, and the U.S. Caribbean territories. In 1941, he and his wife Irene made their first trip to Puerto Rico. It made such an impression on the couple that they moved there in 1946. The Delanos became central to the island's cultural development, working with its government toward the establishment of a modern cultural apparatus for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, founded in 1952. A man of many talents, Delano became te director of the island's first public broadcasting station. He also made films about the island, composed music scores for its orchestra and ballet, and made some of the most iconic and dignified images of its people over his four-decade stay there.
Portraiture has been central to multidisciplinary artist Antonio Martorell, who has since the late 1960s depicted some of Puerto Rico's most prominent cultural and political figures.
Antonio Martorell, 1992 |