Timothy Valentine from a series of photographs on circles found in Mexico

Eduardo del Valle and Mirta Gómez

The Cuban-born husband and wife team of Eduardo del Valle and Mirta Gómez have worked collaboratively for more than thirty years, receiving international acclaim for their photographs of subjects in a state of flux. From the Ground Up, the first monograph of their work, is a three-part photographic essay focusing on the metamorphosis of the vernacular domestic architecture in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. This fascinating study, comprising photographs taken from the mid-1980s to 2002, is surely the most extensive and comprehensive record of the design and evolution of this region’s built structures. This highly acclaimed monograph, published by The Nazraeli Press (2003), contains 96 color plates with essays by Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Richard Rodriguez, author and essayist on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. Book blurb by, John Szarkowski, Director Emeritus, Department of Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. Del Valle and Gómez are the recipients of numerous artists fellowships and awards including the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997); Oscar B. Cintas Foundation (1989 and 1996); South Florida Cultural Consortium (1993); National Endowment for the Arts (1976 and 1990); Florida Art Council (1987) and New York State Council for the Arts (1979). Their photographs were exhibited in the groundbreaking Inaugural Exhibition 2004 marking the reopening of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Their work is widely exhibited in the U.S. and abroad and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Paine Webber Photographic Collection, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California and New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana. Their work is represented by Chelsea Galleria, Miami; Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.; Jim Kempner Fine Art, NYC and Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC.

Del Valle and Gómez are Professors of Art/Photography at Florida International University, Miami where they have taught collaboratively since 1983. They are the authors of several monographs, including From the Ground Up (2003); Four Sections of Time (Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2003), Four Sections of Time (Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2004), and Fried Waters (Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2005).