Nadine Markova

Biography

Nadine Markova, in the seventies, did an important photographic work of Mexico, while she developed in the field of advertising and glamour of the most prominent people of the seventies and eighties, both in Europe, the United States, Mexico and Latin America. She was an active photographer and cinematographer recognized worldwide for her portraits of politicians, celebrities and high society people, as well as for her commercial and advertising photography. She worked professionally as a director of photography and cinematographer on 35 mm feature films, shot and directed more than 90 television commercials for major companies. Nadine captured with her camera Isela Vega, Olga Breeskin, Sasha Montenegro, Lucha Villa, who nicknamed her Santa Markova, because in her photos she made her look slender and beautiful. Politicians were also his target: he portrayed from Díaz Ordaz to Ernesto Zedillo, as well as personalities such as Pope John Paul II, Geraldine Chaplin, Harry Belafonte, Kirk Douglas, Sidney Poitier, Isabella Rossellini, Michael Douglas and John Gavin. Carlos Fuentes had the desire to "carry her cameras and be invisible in her studio". Luis Spota proudly had her photo on his desk as the muse of his inspiration. Federico Fellini flirted with her while filming Amarcord. Actor Claudio Brooks, in the ambivalence of succumbing to an irrepressible seduction or fearfully retreating before a daring and independent woman, dedicated his performance of Man of La Mancha to her in New York. Almost any Mexican over the age of 65 remembers her with a mischievous smile evoking her fame as a photographer for Caballero magazine. She was considered the best advertising photographer in Mexico. She collaborated with publications such as Life, Forbes, Playboy, National Geographic, Newsweek, Times, People, Vogue and Rolling Stone.