Lisl Steiner's love affair with the lens
AN EXHIBITION of images by the acclaimed AustrianAmerican photographer, photojournalist, and documentary filmmaker Lisl Steiner is taking place at the Alicante university museum’s (MUA) Sala CUB.
‘The Intuitive lens of Lisl Steiner’ forms part of the PhotoAlicante 2022 festival and is open to the public until April 3.
Commissioned by Leónidas Spinelli, the exhibition contains a selection of photographs from Steiner’s extended ‘Children of the Americas’ project. The childhood project contains works from 1959-1970, and was inspired by the children's poems of the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral.
Lisl believed that every child deserved the opportunity to have a ‘lovely life’, like her – one which she left behind in Austria before the Nazis arrived.
The exhibition contains more than 40 photographs of children from countries on the American continent, as well as 30 additional images covering different themes and eras. Jointly they make up a retrospective of Lisl Steiner's work.
Now 94 years old, the photographer is still active in her field and, in addition to the ‘Children of the Americas’ project, is also known for her photos of political and cultural figures from the 50s, 60s and 70s, including Louis Armstrong, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Andy Warhol.
Born in Austria in 1927, Lisl Steiner emigrated to Argentina with her family in 1938, and in recent years has been living in New York.
MUA is situated at on the San Vicente del Raspeig campus and is open Monday to Friday from 09.00-20.00 and weekends 10.00-14.00.
Admission is free.