Brooks, Reva
Canadian , 1913 - 2004
American, b. 1943 Washington, D.C.
(Mathew Wilson: American, b. 1967, Adam Brooks: American, b. 1959)
American, b. 1949 San Francisco, CA, d. 1972 Los Angeles, CA
BiographyReva Brooks photographed for a large portion of her artistic career in and around San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. Brooks began photographing there in 1947 while on a trip with her husband, the painter Frank Leonard Brooks. Originally planning to stay for a year, they stayed in San Miguel de Allende for fifty years. Confrontation, one of Brooks’ most well-known photographs which depicts a mother grieving over her child, was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s The Family of Man exhibition (1955). Her work was also exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art; Eaton’s Art Gallery, Toronto; the National Gallery of Canada; the Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario; Edward Day Gallery, Kingston, Ontario; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the International Center of Photography, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution, among others. Brooks was named one of the top fifty women photographers in history by the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1975.