Museo Moderno
D Amico Alicia
Escenografía para un sueño, 1961, Silver gelatin on paper, Vintage print, 21,5 x 28,5 cm.

(Buenos Aires, 1933-2001) She studied Drawing and Painting at the National School of Fine Arts. In 1955 she received a scholarship from the French government to study for a year in Paris. Upon her return to Buenos Aires, she began to study photography in the studio of her father, Luis D’Amico, and then continued her training with Annemarie Heinrich. In 1960 he opened his studio, partnering with Sara Facio until 1986. With her and Cristina Orive he founded Editorial La Azotea in 1973. She was also co-founder of the Argentine Council of Photography in 1979. Her early works show her interest in experimenting with the formal resources of photography. She developed a series dedicated to Buenos Aires, she also explored portraits, particularly of Latin American writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Alejandra Pizarnik, Olga Orozco, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, among others. She also took photographs of psychiatric patients that were part of the book with Facio, “Humanario”. In the early 1980s, she participated in the founding of Lugar de Mujer, the first feminist cultural center in Argentina, and her research revolved around the female gaze and the role of women in the field of photography. She gave courses, workshops and conferences and held important exhibitions on these topics. Her activism and militancy led her photography to become increasingly critical and she developed a work committed to other sectors, such as the Mapuche people, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo or the popular sectors. She participated in interdisciplinary projects with psychologists and sociologists using the photographic image as a means of knowledge and research. She exhibited her work frequently since 1963 and actively participated with lectures, conferences, workshops and photographs in important international festivals such as Hecho en Latinoamérica, Mexico, 1978; Les Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France, 1979; Venice 79: La Fotografía, Italy; Fotografía Lateinamérika en Kunthaus, Zurich, Switzerland, 1981; Recontres d’Arles, France, 1989. She published among other books: “Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires”, 1968; “Geography of Pablo Neruda”, Barcelona, 1973; “Portraits and Self-Portraits”, 1973; “Humanario”, 1976; “How to take photographs”, 1977; “Sara Facio Alicia D’Amico”, 1985; “It could be me. Los sectores populares urbanos en imagen y palabra”, 1987.