Girl Resting

Yampolsky is best known for her photography, a medium she was introduced to at the Taller de Gráfica Popular. She joined the workshop at age nineteen, when, after hearing a talk about the group’s art and activism, she was inspired to move to Mexico, attracted by its members’ dedication to making graphic works that reflected anti-authoritarianism and leftist political views. She also shared the workshop’s mission to reach the largest possible audience and even organized international exhibitions of its work. Yampolsky made photographs and print portraits of both celebrated figures (such as the artist and fellow workshop member Elizabeth Catlett) as well as the anonymous. Here, she showed a girl at rest beside a pail and cloth, indicating fatigue resulting from the physical toil of manual work.