The Covarrubias Circle.(Book Review)

From: Latino Leaders | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: Barnett, Rick | Copyright information

THE COVARRUBIAS CIRCLE A Book by: Kurt Heinzelman Price: $34.95 / Hardcover-University of Texas Press, TX On Sale Now-www.amazon.com

In 1920, Hungarian born Nickolas Muray opened a photography studio in his Greenwich Village home in N.Y. He photographed presidents, theater and dance performers, and artists, among them Diego Rivera, Frida Khalo, and famous cartoonist Miguel Covarrubias, all part of an intellectual circle that Muray became close friends with.

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