Tony Mendoza (photographer)
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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.
[edit] Bibliography
- Ernie : a photographer's memoir, 1985, (ISBN 0-88496-240-7)
- Stories, 1987, (ISBN 0-87113-146-3)
- Dogs : a postcard book, 1995, (ISBN 0-88496-397-7)
- Cuba-- : going back, 1999, (ISBN 0-292-75232-6)
- Ernie : a photographer's memoir-expanded edition, 2001, (ISBN 0-8118-2963-2)
- Flowers, 2007, (ISBN 1-59005-170-X)
- Tony Mendoza : photographs, words, video, (written by Mendoza, edited by Louisa Bertch Green), 2003, (ISBN 0-918881-49-8)
