Daisy Ascher

Daisy Ascher Oved
Born(1944-04-25)25 April 1944
Mexico City, Mexico
Died31 March 2003(2003-03-31) (aged 58)
OccupationPortrait photographer
Known forBook: Revealing José Luis Cuevas
Parents
  • Samuel Ascher (father)
  • Luisa Oved (mother)

Daisy Ascher Oved (25 April 1944–31 March 2003) was a Mexican photographer. Much of her work consists of portraits, including of Mexican cultural figures such as José Luis Cuevas and Juan Rulfo.

Biography

Daisy Ascher was born in Mexico City in 1944 to Samuel Ascher and Luisa Oved. She studied at Universidá Motolinía and at Universidá Anáhuac. She died of cancer on 31 March 2003, at 58.

Education

She studied art at Motolinía University and Universidad Anáhuac, and also studied with the Photographic Club of Mexico. She published ten books of her photography, including Formas Silenciosas and Cien retratos por Daisy Ascher.

Ascher's influences included Eugene Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo as well as Richard Avedon, Yousuf Karsh and Sam Haskins, all of them dedicated to portraits.

Work

Ascher was part of the Photographic Club of México and ventured into various themes and photographic genres making photographs for magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Vanidaes and Foto Mundo. She was recognised for her work by Atget, Stiglitz, Strand, Alvarez Bravo and Cartier-Bresson.

She was known for her portrait studies of José Luis Cuevas and Juan Rulfo. Her book “Revealing José Luis Cuevas” took her seven years to complete and is considered one of her best known works.

Among the exhibitions her work appeared in was a large touring exhibition of Mexican photography entitled Cofradía de Luz in 1996.

Mexican historian Fernando Benítez (1912-2000) wrote of Ascher, "Daisy masks and unmasks. Daisy armed with her magic eye, penetrates, bathes in light, covers with shadows, stands out and vanishes, and leaves us a gallery of amazing ghosts."

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Photographer Daisy Ascher Oved, 58, Dies". artdaily.cc. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
  2. ↑ Gonzalez, Alberto (April 22, 2003). "Daisy Ascher: Fotógrafa de las sombras - Réquiem (1944-2003)". Reforma.
  3. 1 2 Ruiz, Blanca (3 April 2003). "Fallece Daisy Ascher - La fotógrafa muere de cáncer a los 58 años". Reforma.
  4. ↑ Gaitan, Julieta Ortiz (2003). "Ascher (Oved), Daisy". Oxford Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T004530. ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ Ruano, Silvia (22 November 1996). "Revelaran sus imagenes". El Norte.
  6. ↑ Ortiz, Juan (2019-06-10). "Fernando Benítez: biografía, estilo, obras". Lifeder (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-06.