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 mihaela rated 11 months ago -
The most renowned photographer in the history of Latin America, Manuel Alvarez Bravo is the cornerstone of this art in Mexico. When he began photographing in the 1920s and 1930s, artists who constitute a veritable "who's who" of the lens immediately acknowledged his innate capacity:...
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- mihaela rated 11 months ago
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The most renowned photographer in the history of Latin America, Manuel Alvarez Bravo is the cornerstone of this art in Mexico. When he began photographing in the 1920s and 1930s, artists who constitute a veritable "who's who" of the lens immediately acknowledged his innate capacity: Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Paul Strand, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. The respect that he engendered was encapsulated in Cartier-Bresson's response when someone likened Alvarez Bravo's imagery to Weston's: "Don't compare them, Manuel is the real artist." Alvarez Bravo's unique eye was such that the founder of surrealism, André Breton, sought him out in 1938 to commission an image for the cover of a surrealist exhibition catalogue (he complied with the famous La buena fama durmiendo [The Good Reputation Sleeping], but it could not appear on the cover because of the full-frontal nudity). His recognition by such luminaries notwithstanding, Alvarez Bravo had little visibility within the U.S. prior to the modest 1971 exhibit at the Pasadena Art Museum in California, which later passed through New York's Museum of Modern Art without causing much of a stir. Subsequent exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (1978) and San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts (1990) made Alvarez Bravo a much more familiar figure, and his consecration was assured when he returned to the MOMA in 1997 for the definitive exhibit of 175 photographs.
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- ksnixa rated 11 months ago
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- JakDMSY rated 12 months ago
- great stumbles from Yugoslavia. Great photostumbles.
- caravia rated 12 months ago
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- alibora rated 11 months ago
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- edgeoforever rated 11 months ago
- Interesting!
- Kodan rated 11 months ago
- Very, nice site, I wish you happy Stumbling,Uray,
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Kodan
- DAYLIGHTX rated 12 months ago
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- JIR rated 12 months ago
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- ege777 rated 12 months ago
- those two chairs are occupied from now on
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