Reva Brooks

Reva Brooks (Mayu 1913 - 24 Janairu 2004) 'yar kasar Kanada mai daukar hoto ce wacce ta yi yawan cin ayyu kan ta a ciki da wajen San Miguel de Allende a Mexico. Gidan kayan gargajiya na San Francisco ta zaɓi Reva Brooks a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin manyan mata 50 masu daukar hoto a tarihi.Brooks, Reva". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Retrieved 24 June 2023. 

 Sana'a 
An haifi Reva Silverman a Toronto, Ontario a watan Mayu 1913. Iyayen ta, Moritz Silverman da Jenny Kleinberg sun yi ƙaura zuwa Kanada daga Poland. Moritz ya isa Toronto a shekara ta 1905 kuma ya fara aiki a gundumar tufafin Yahudawa a kan titin Spadina, kuma bayan shekaru uku ya sami isasshen kuɗi don aika Jenny, wanda ya aura a lokaci ɗaya. Moritz Silverman ya kafa kansa a cikin wani shagon tela da dan nawa, inda Reva da yayyen ta shida suka girma. 

A 1935, ta auri mai zane Frank Leonard Brooks . Yayin da suke tafiya zuwa San Miguel de Allende ta ɗauki hoto. Ma'aura tan sun kasan ce farkon abin da ya zama sanan nen yanki na masu fasaha a wan nan garin.  Sun isa a 1947, suna shirin zama na shekara guda yayin da Frank Brooks ya yi karatun zane-zane, kuma ya zauna tsawon shekaru hamsin. 

A ranar 12 ga Agusta 1950 Leonard da Reva Brooks, da Stirling Dickinson da wasu malaman Amurka biyar, an kori su daga Mexico. Dalili a hukumance shi ne ba su da takardar bizar aiki da ta dace amma dalilin na iya kasan cewa takun saka da mai wata makaran tar fasaha ta kishiya. Leonard Brooks ya yi nasarar dage wannan odar ta yadda za su iya komawa ta hanyar tuntubar da ya yi da Janar Ignacio M. Beteta, wanda ya taba ba da shawara kan zane-zane kuma dan uwansa Ramón Beteta Quintana ya kasan ce dan siyasa mai tasiri a matakin kasa. 

 Aiki 
A cikin Satumba-Oktoba 1950, kafin buɗe hukuma ta Instituto Allende a San Miguel, ta gudanar da nunin ayyu kan masu fasaha na gida. Ayyukan Leonard da Reva Brooks sun haɗa a cikin wannan nunin.  An fara gane daukar hoto na Reva Brooks kuma Minor White ya yaba da shi a cikin 1952 lokacin da aka sake buga hoton Reva na Anciana (Dona Chencha), a bangon bango na uku na Aperture, bugu mai tasowa tare da manufa don zama dan dalin ci gaban kyawu a daukar hoto.  A wannan shekarar, Reva Brooks ya sayar da daya daga cikin shahararrun hotunan ta, Confrontation, hoton da Brooks ya dauka a 1948 na wata uwa da ke baƙin ciki game da yaron da ya mutu, ga Edward Steichen, darektan daukar hoto a Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) a New York,  kuma a cikin 1955 an haɗa aikin a cikin nunin The Family of Man na MOMA, ɗaya daga cikin manyan nune-nunen na daukar hoto. (An haɗa shi a cikin wani sashe da ke magana akan ra'ayin "mutuwar duniya" - sakamakon bam ɗin hydrogen, har yanzu tsoro bayan yakin a cikin fahimtar jama'a).  Yawancin girma daga ainihin bugu, shi ne na farko a cikin ra'ayi tsakanin ayyukan sanan nun masu daukar hoto, irin su Roman Vishniac .  A cikin 1975, Yaro Matattu, na yaron da ke cikin Tashe-tashen hankula, an haɗa shi a cikin jerin hotuna guda biyar a cikin nunin mata na Hotuna: Binciken Tarihi, a San Francisco Museum of Art . Ya kawo sabon hankali ga Reva, inda ya bayya na ta a matsa yin babbar mace mai daukar hoto a Mexico, da Kanada.  

Reva Brooks (tare da mijinta Leonard) aka nuna a Eaton's Art Gallery, Toronto, a 1949. EXPO'67 ne ya samar da babban taro don aikin ta a cikin Nunin Hoto na Duniya: Kamara a matsa yin Shaida .  Ko da yake ɗaiɗaikun masu daukar hoto sun kasan ce ba a bayyana sunan su ba don goyon bayan jigon kyakkya wan fata, Hotunan Reva an gane su ta hanyar batun saboda sha'awar ɗan adam. Har yanzu, an ga aikinta a tsakanin masu daukar hoto masu daraja, irin su Inge Morath . 

A cikin 1976, an haɗa aikin ta a cikin wani nuni a National Gallery of Canada, kuma a cikin 1989, a cikin Art Gallery na Windsor, Ontario.  Nunin solo na farko na Reva Brooks ta kasance a cikin 1998 a Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, tare da nunin haɗin gwiwa tare da Leonard Brooks a Edward Day Gallery, Kingston, Ontario.  Ta shiga cikin nune-nunen nune-nune da yawa a Kanada da ƙasashen waje, kamar nata na baya-bayan nan a Gidan Tarihi na Gidan Tarihi na Zamani na Kanada, Ottawa, a cikin 2000,  tare da nunin solo dinta na ƙarshe kasancewar ta baya-baya a Art Gallery na Ontario a 2002. 

Ta mutu a San Miguel de Allende a shekara ta 2004. 

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