Alejandro Kuropatwa

Alejandro Kuropatwa was an Argentine photographer. Born in Buenos Aires to a family of Jewish immigrants, in his youth he studied photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology 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 as Charly Garcia, Gustavo Cerati and Fito Páez. Due to his festive lifestyle and extravagant personality, he was known as the "Argentine Andy Warhol". Openly gay, Kuropatwa discovered that he had AIDS in 1984. After coming close to death many times, a new generation of anti AIDS drugs stabilized his health and he survived for almost 20 years. In 2002, Kuropatwa won the Konex Award as the most influential Argentine photographer of the nineties. That same year, Kuropatwa exhibited his lifetime of work at the Buenos Aires National Museum of Fine Arts. Kuropatwa died in 2003 due to complications related to AIDS, at the age of 47. ^{Alejandro Kuropatwa, Argentine photographer (d. 2003)}

22 October 1956

Born on the same birth date (22 October 1956): John Adam (rugby league)

Born on the same birth day (22 October): Aurelio Baldor • David Savard • Debbie Macomber • Edmund Dulac • Horacio Agulla • Jimmie Foxx • José Leitão de Barros • Kara Lang • Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France • Marc Shaiman • Nelson Pereira dos Santos • Peter Cook (architect) • Slater Martin • Tiki Gelana

Born in the same month (October 1956): Beth Daniel • Carlo Urbani • Derek Ringer • Elena Garanina • Jim Talent • John Adam (rugby league) • Lutz Haueisen • Meg Rosoff • Rafael Ábalos • Rita Wilson • Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah • Ümit Besen