Mariana Yampolsky

Mariana Yampolsky (September 6, 1925 – May 3, 2002) was a photographer born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother, Hedwig Urbach, was from an upper-class German Jewish family and was the niece of Franz Boas, influential in American anthropology. Her father, Oscar Yampolsky, was a Russian Jewish sculptor and painter. Mariana Yampolsky earned by Bacher of Arts in social sciences in 1944 from the University of Chicago. She moved to Mexico in 1945, where she studied painting and sculpture at the National School for Painting, Suclpture and Graphics and joined the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People's Graphics Workshop) where she worked as a printmaker until 1960. Yampolsky studied photography at the San Carlos Academy with Lola Alvarez Bravo and Manuel Alvarez Bravo. She also worked as a graphic arts editor for primary school textbooks. She died on May 3, 2002, survived by her husband Arjen van der Sluis.