Told and Untold: The Photo Stories of Kati Horna in the Illustrated Press

Told and Untold, published in association with the first U.S. solo exhibition dedicated to Kati Horna (b. 1912 Budapest – d. 2000 Mexico City), features photographs—some never before seen—displayed alongside the newspapers and magazines in which they circulated. Though she is now perhaps best known as a surrealist, Horna often defined herself as collaborator with the press, a definition that encompassed not only her activities as a field photographer during the Spanish Civil War, but also her work as a layout artist and photomonteur for anarchist publications. From her early years in interwar Paris through her late work produced in Mexico, this publication offers a comprehensive overview of Horna’s diverse practice, including her photographs, contact sheets, montaged cuttings, and personal albums.

Table of contents:

• "Memory and the Recovery of Lived Experiences: Kati Horna, 'Invisibilist'" by Norah Horna
• "'Each one is One': Traces Left with Light on Paper" by Andrea Geyer
• "Loss and Renewal: The Politics and Poetics of Kati Horna’s Photo Stories" by Michel Otayek
• "The 'Social Fantastic' in Kati Horna’s Paris (1933–1937)" by Maria Antonella Pelizzari
• "'First, Win the War!' Kati Horna, Gendered Images and Political Discord during the Spanish Civil War" by Miriam Margarita Basilio
• "Kati Horna in Mexico and Her Representations of the Female Experience" by Christina L. De León and Melina Kervandjian
• "Kati Horna, Mathias Goeritz, and Architectural Photography" by Cristóbal Andrés Jácome

Learn more about the Told and Untold exhibition.

Hardcover, English, 188 pages.

You can purchase the catalogue here.