Sara Facio (18 April 1932 – 18 June 2024) was an Argentine photojournalist and publisher.[1] She was best known for having photographed, along with Alicia D'Amico, various cultural personalities, including Argentine writers Julio Cortázar, María Elena Walsh and Alejandra Pizarnik.[2] She co-founded the publishing house "La Azotea" alongside María Cristina Orive in 1973.[3][4][5]
Facio was instrumental in establishing a publishing house for photographic work in Latin America and for the creation of a prominent photographic exhibition space in Argentina.[6][7]
In 1985, Facio established the Fotogalería of the Teatro Municipal General San Martín, which has become one of the most prominent photographic exhibition spaces in Argentina.[13][14] Facio served as the director of the gallery until 1998.[14]
"What I do in photography is to ensure that the day I die they do not say that a cow died but that a person who saw that died. And what I saw is in my photos. As if to say, 'This is my city, my people, the one I admire, the one I like.' That is my canon."
Sara Facio, in response to the question by Maria Moreno for Página 12 in 2000.[15]
Facio donated 25% of the photographs that make up the photographic heritage of the National Museum of Fine Arts from her personal archive.[20]
Aside from photography, Facio also wrote books and published more than twenty personal books from the time when she began writing in 1968.[18] She also published anthological books in 2012 and 2016.[18]
[edit]Facio standing in front of two of her works in 2019.
Facio was born in San Isidro, Argentina in 1932.[8] She graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1953.[8] Afterward, she received a scholarship from the French government and began residing in Paris, where she studied visual arts and photography.[18]
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Text by Julio Cortázar. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana. 1968.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
Neruda, Pablo (1973). Geografía de Pablo Neruda [Geography of Pablo Neruda] (in Spanish). Photographs by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Barcelona: Aymá. ISBN978-84-209-0165-7.
Facio, Sara; D'Amico, Alicia (1973). Retratos y Autorretratos: Escritores de América Latina [Portraits and Self-portraits: Writers of Latin America] (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Text by various authors. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Crisis.
Facio, Sara; D'Amico, Alicia (1976). Cómo Tomar Fotografías [How to Take Photographs] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: La Azotea.
Humanario (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Text by Julio Cortázar. Buenos Aires: La Azotea. 1976.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
Facio, Sara (1980). Actos de fe en Guatemala [Acts of Faith in Guatemala] (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and María Cristina Orive. Text by Miguel Ángel Asturias. Buenos Aires: La Azotea.
Facio, Sara, ed. (1981). Fotografia Argentina actual = Photographie Argentine actuelle = Argentinian Photography Today (in Spanish and English). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Azotea.
Facio, Sara; D'Amico, Alicia; Walsh, María Elena (1985). Fotografía Argentina: 1960–1985 (in Spanish). Photography by Sara Facio and Alicia D'Amico. Text by María Elena Walsh. Buenos Aires: La Azotea. ISBN978-950-9536-02-9.
Facio, Sara (1992). Retratos: 1960-1992 [Portraits: 1960-1992] (in Spanish and English). Text by María Elena Walsh. Buenos Aires: La Azotea. ISBN978-950-9536-14-2.
Facio, Sara (1995). La Fotografía en la Argentina: Desde 1840 a nuestros días [Photography in Argentina: From 1840 to the present day] (in Spanish and English). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Azotea. ISBN978-950-9536-17-3.
Facio, Sara, ed. (1996). Fotografía Argentina Actual DOS (in Spanish and English). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Azotea Editorial Fotográfica. ISBN978-950-9536-19-7.
^Sougez, Marie-Loup; Pérez Gallardo, Helena (2003). Diccionario de historia de la fotografía. Cuadernos arte Cátedra (1 ed.). Madrid: Cátedra. p. 120. ISBN978-84-376-2038-1.
^Trevino, Rose Zertuche (November 1996). "Children's Books in Spanish". School Library Journal. 42 (11): 134. Archived from the original on 20 June 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2018 – via EBSCOhost.
Foster, David William (1998). "Sara Facio as Urban Photographer". Buenos Aires: perspectives on the city and cultural production. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. pp. 170–94. ISBN978-0-8130-1613-9.
Facio, Sara; Gasió, Guillermo; Docampo, Mariana; Facio, Sara (2016). La foto como pasión (1 ed.). Buenos Aires: Planeta. ISBN978-950-49-5177-3.