Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Description

From his first days as a photographer - with the backing of such greats as Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Paul Strand and Henri Cartier-Bresson - Manuel Alvarez Bravo worked over a wide range of styles and subject matter - formalist abstraction, architecture, interiors, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits - with a consistent focus on the landscape and social geography of Mexico. In his concise vision of his homeland, it was both a real and symbolic landscape populated with subjects detained in dream world tableaux of desire, solitude, candor and foreboding. Eyes in His Eyes reintroduces some of the artist's overlooked masterpieces, and reveals, for the first time, a broad selection of never-before-seen images from his private archives. In his 80-year career, Alvarez Bravo printed, published and exhibited only a thousand images. This portfolio, culled with the help of the artist himself, and completed after his death, is full of unfamiliar abstractions, portraits, landscapes and street photography. It provides an invaluable re-entry into the visual poetry of one of Mexico's most gifted artists and a Modern master of photography.

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Series Statement

• Aperture masters of photography ;

Other Editions

• Manuel Alvarez BravoAperture Foundation1987-01-01
• Manuel Alvarez Bravo.Pasadena Art Museum1971-01-01
• Manuel Alvarez BravoInstituto Nacional de Bellas Artes1972-01-01
• Manuel Alvarez BravoPhotographers' Gallery1976-01-01
• Manuel Alvarez BravoPhotogalerie1976-01-01
• Manuel Alvarez Bravo.Academia de Artes1980-01-01