Tony Mendoza
Author
1941 –
Who is Tony Mendoza?
Tony Mendoza is a Cuban-American photographer. He was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to Miami, Florida with his family in 1960. He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Engineering and Harvard with a Master of Architecture, before becoming a full-time photographic artist in 1973. Married to Maria del Carmen from Esperanza, Cuba, and they have two children Alex and Lydia.
Mendoza has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Photography Fellowship as well as two Creative Writing fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council. His photographs have featured in many major museums.
His most famous book, Ernie, is a photographic memoir centered around a cat he encountered when he moved into an apartment in New York City.
Mendoza is currently an instructor of photography at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
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- Born
- Jul 21, 1941
Havana - Also known as
- Antonio Mendoza
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Cuba
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
(1964 - 1968) - Bachelor of Engineering, Yale University
(1959 - 1963)
- Master of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Lived in
- Ohio
(1988 - )
- Ohio
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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