The present Doodle celebrates one of Mexico’s first expert female picture takers, Lola Álvarez Bravo, on her 117th birthday celebration.

Known for her representations of public figures, just as road photography chronicling many years of Mexican life, she is viewed as one of the nation’s pioneers of innovator photography.

Born Dolores Martinez de Anda in Jalisco, Mexico, on this day in 1903, the future picture taker moved to Mexico City as a kid.

It was from her neighbor, Manuel Bravo, that she previously took in the fundamentals of photography, incorporating creating photographs in the darkroom. The pair wedded in 1925, and both proceeded to accomplish huge approval for their work.

Álvarez Bravo turned into a central figure in Mexico’s post-revolution cultural renaissance, and among her most universally prestigious photos were those taken in the mid-1940s of her companion, and one of the nation’s most notorious specialists, the painter Frida Kahlo.

Through her photojournalistic lens, Álvarez Bravo caught scenes of ordinary Mexican life, from neighborhood conventions to outside barbershops, portraying the profundity and breadth of the nation’s way of life over a vocation spreading over the greater part a century.

In 1981, Álvarez Bravo’s home territory of Jalisco granted her a decoration of qualification for her commitment to human expressions, and after four years, a plaque was introduced in her respect in Guadalajara’s memorable Degollada Theater.