Antonio Reynoso (1916–1996) was a pioneering Mexican photographer and cinematographer born in Toluca. From 1936 to 1940, he studied painting with Manuel Rodríguez Lozano at the Academia de San Carlos before shifting his focus to photography under the tutelage of Manuel Álvarez Bravo from 1940 to 1943 at the same institution. His early work received international attention in 1943 when he exhibited six photographs—including images depicting Día de Muertos, a tomb, a portrait of Nefero, a girl plucking birds, indigenous people in a park, and scenes titled Alegría and Muerte en la vecindad—in the “Mexican Art Today” exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exposure was further bolstered in 1944 when he participated in exhibitions at both the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
