Bidspirit auction | Neil Maurer: Church, Mexico City,

Neil Maurer: Church, Mexico City, 1974 - Neil Maurer (American, b 1941): Church, Mexico City, 1974. Silver gelatin print mounted on rag board, unframed. Limited edition print (93/100) from the 8th annual portfolio of The Photographic Education Society, Rhode Island School of Design, 1975. Maurer, who earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Brown University in 1962, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru before he began working as a newspaper reporter. He got his start in photography taking pictures to accompany his stories. Later, he earned a master's degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. He received a Fulbright-Hays Grant to photograph in Peru in 1975, then accepted a teaching position at University of Texas at San Antonio.