Maria LaYacona

Maria LaYacona (1926-2019) bụ onye na-ese foto amụrụ America nke rụrụ ọrụ na Jamaica. N'ime afọ iri atọ mbụ ya, ọ bụ onye na-ese foto maka ụlọ ọrụ ihe nkiri mba nke mba ahụ.

 Oge ọ malitere 
Nne na nna LaYacona siri na Italy kwaga America ma amuru ya na Cleveland, Ohio, na 18 Novemba 1926. Nna ya na-agbazi ihe onyonyo site na ulo ezinulo ya na nwanne ya nwoke ma nyere ya aka n'ime ulo gbara ọchịchịrị ya. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Winona School of Professional Photography na Winona Lake, Indiana, tupu ọ kwaga New York City na 1950 ebe ọ kwadoro onwe ya site na ịse foto maka mgbasa ozi ọha na eze na agbamakwụkwọ ọha.[1][2]

Ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka Oge nta akụkọ foto maka Time and Life ma, na 1955 nabatara ọrụ site na Sports Illustrated, na-aga Jamaica iji gbaa usoro nnwale n'etiti Australia na West Indies na Sabina Park. Mba ahụ masịrị ya ma laghachi n'otu afọ ahụ wee nọrọ ndụ ya fọdụrụ na Jamaica.[1]

 Ọrụ ya na Jamaica 
Iji kwado onwe ya, ọ nabatara ọrụ maka mgbasa ozi na nkwalite njem nleta ma webata nchịkọta foto ụlọ akwụkwọ na mba ahụ, mana mmasị ya bụ foto. Foto ya nke Praịm Minista Michael Manley pụtara na akwụkwọ ego $ 1,000.[2] Ọ na-ese foto ndị na-ese ihe na ndị ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị, yana ndị Jamaica kwa ụbọchị - onye ọkụ azụ na-arụ ọrụ, na ụmụaka na-egwuri egwu.

N'afọ 1964, afọ abụọ mgbe e guzobesịrị ya, ọ sonyeere National Dance Theatre Company dị ka onye na-ese foto, ọkwá ọ nọgidere na ya ruo mgbe ọ lara ezumike nká na 1992.  E bipụtara foto ya nke ndị na-agba egwú n'akwụkwọ abụọ, Roots and Rhythms (1969) na Dance Jamaica: Renewal and Continuity (1985). [1] E gosipụtakwara ọtụtụ foto ịgba egwú ya na stampụ akwụkwọ ozi nke Jamaica.

Ka ọ na-erule afọ 2000, LaYacona lara ezumike nká n'ụlọ dị na Kingston. Ọ nwụrụ na 28 Eprel 2019. 

 Akwụkwọ ndị e bipụtara 

 Roots and Rhythms (1969)
 Dance Jamaica: Renewal and Continuity (1985)
 Jamaica Portraits (1998)
 Jamaica Reverie (2006)

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