"Mario Cravo Neto was a Brazilian photographer, born on April 20, 1947, in the city of Salvador, Bahia, where he died on August 09, 2009. In 1964, at the age of 17, he moved to Germany, where his father, the sculptor Mario Cravo Jr., was participating in the Artist in Residence program, in Berlin. It was during this period that Cravo Neto began his first experiences with sculpture and photography. In 1965, he returned to Brazil where he won an award at the first Art Biennial of Bahia and also mounted his first solo exhibition. Between 1968 and 1970, he lived in New York, where he studied at the Art Students League, under the direction of artist Jack Krueger, one of the pioneers of conceptual art. In 1970, he published his first photographic work outside of Brazil, in the catalog for the exhibition Information at New York's Museum of Modern Art."
