Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Reva Brooks (May 1913 - 24 January 2004) was a Canadian photographer who did much of her work in and around San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.The San Francisco Museum of Art chose Reva Brooks as one of the top 50 women photographers in history.Reva Silverman was born in Toronto, Ontario in May 1913.Her parents, Moritz Silverman and Jenny Kleinberg had immigrated to Canada from Poland.Moritz arrived in Toronto in 1905 and began work in the Jewish garment district on Spadina Avenue,and after three years had saved enough money to send for Jenny, whom he married at once.Moritz Silverman set himself up in a tailoring and pressing shop, where Reva and her six siblings were raised.In 1935 Reva married the artist Frank Leonard Brooks.While they were on a trip to San Miguel de Allende she took up photography.The couple were early members of what became a well known colony of artists in that town.They arrived in 1947, planning to stay for a year while Frank Brooks studied painting, and eventually stayed for fifty years.On 12 August 1950 Leonard and Reva Brooks, as well as Stirling Dickinson and five other American teachers, were deported from Mexico. . }
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- Reva_Brooks comment "Reva Brooks (May 1913 - 24 January 2004) was a Canadian photographer who did much of her work in and around San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.The San Francisco Museum of Art chose Reva Brooks as one of the top 50 women photographers in history.Reva Silverman was born in Toronto, Ontario in May 1913.Her parents, Moritz Silverman and Jenny Kleinberg had immigrated to Canada from Poland.Moritz arrived in Toronto in 1905 and began work in the Jewish garment district on Spadina Avenue,and after three years had saved enough money to send for Jenny, whom he married at once.Moritz Silverman set himself up in a tailoring and pressing shop, where Reva and her six siblings were raised.In 1935 Reva married the artist Frank Leonard Brooks.While they were on a trip to San Miguel de Allende she took up photography.The couple were early members of what became a well known colony of artists in that town.They arrived in 1947, planning to stay for a year while Frank Brooks studied painting, and eventually stayed for fifty years.On 12 August 1950 Leonard and Reva Brooks, as well as Stirling Dickinson and five other American teachers, were deported from Mexico. ".