At the beginning of 1953, the executives of the magazine Always They were determined that the first number of their publication would be unforgettable, so they decided to take advantage of the spectacular beauty of a showgirl Y actress 17 years old, called Maty Huitron.
The commissioner to portray the beautiful young woman would be nacho lopezan apprentice Manuel Alvarez Bravowho was beginning to be recognized for moving his work away from commonplaces such as politicians and other elites, preferring instead to photograph the common people.
The day the six photographs of Maty Huitrón were taken
Thus, one January morning, a photographer and an actress met at a place in the Historical Center of the Mexico City to carry out the session, but Nacho pretended that he did not have film for the photographs, so he told her that he would go ahead to buy some rolls and asked her to catch up with him later. Maty Huitrón agreed, she had taken the bait.
Naturally, the actress, wrapped in a tight dress that showed her shapely figure, began to walk down the street. Madero Avenue receiving the leeringbut above all, the comments of the mexican men of the time. The photographer was taking pictures of her without her or the people around her seeing him.
“Hey Nacho, don’t measure yourself”
Once the daring walk was over, the actress rebuked the photographer saying: “hey Nacho, you don’t measure yourself. You don’t know everything they told me”, the artist only smiled at him knowing that his work had turned out as he had wanted, the Hathor Mexican had been immortalized for his lens at times showing a face of seriousness and others of discomfort.
The session of six photographs was published in the first issue of the magazine Always under the title “When a beautiful woman leaves plaza for Madero”causing joy in the Mexicans of the time, not only for seeing a beautiful woman, but for feeling reflected in the people who saw her walking down the street.
The photograph received criticism in its time
Do not believe that the image did not receive harsh criticism at the time, as many considered it an ode to machismo, but Huitrón mitigated the comments by saying that her image became an event that brought her global recognition without the need to undress, put on makeup excessive or hypersexualized.
By 1957 the session was recognized by the UNESCOso it did not take long to be exhibited in Paris Y Munich. Charles Monsivais decided to include it on the cover of his book you knowan anthology of Chronicles about Mexico City.
At the beginning of 2000, photography was declared one of the greatest photographic feats of the 20th century, including it in a postage stamp memorial. Today the negatives are protected by the Anthropology National Museum.
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