Photographs for Cahiers d'Arts

In 1946, Hurtado traveled with artist Wolfgang Paalen (who would soon become her second husband) to the San Lorenzo region of Mexico to see the Aztec and Olmec sites of Tenochtitlan and La Venta. Her photographs of Olmec heads and other archaeological relics, a selection of which are shown here, were published in 1952 in Cahiers d’Arts, accompanying an article titled “Le Plus Ancien Visage du Nouveau Monde” (The Oldest Face of the New World).