Alejandro Kuropatwa (October 22, 1956 – February 5, 2003) was anArgentinephotographer. Born inBuenos Aires to a family of Jewish immigrants, in his youth he studied photography at theFashion Institute of Technology (New York) between 1979 and 1982. He then went back to Buenos Aires where he developed his career as a professional photographer. During the eighties and nineties, he became famous for his pictures of main Argentine rock stars such asCharly García,Gustavo Cerati andFito Páez. Due to his festive lifestyle and extravagant personality, he was known as the "ArgentineAndy Warhol". Openly gay, Kuropatwa discovered that he hadAIDS in 1984. After coming close to death many times, a new generation of antiAIDS drugs stabilized his health and he survived for almost 20 years. In 2002, Kuropatwa won theKonex Award as the most influential Argentine photographer of the nineties.[1] That same year, Kuropatwa exhibited his lifetime of work at theBuenos Aires National Museum of Fine Arts. Kuropatwa died in 2003 due to complications related to AIDS, at the age of 47.
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