1983, oversize trade paperback edition, Andre Deutsch, London / Israel Museum, Jerusalem. In English throughout. This book was published in celebration of an exhibition that took place at the Israel Museum in June of 1983. Includes essays / black and white photos.

Dreams--visions--metaphors: The photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Catalogue / Israel Museum)

Arts & Photography

Alvarez Bravo, Manuel

Photography & Video

Israel Museum

Manuel Alvarez Bravo is one of the foremost figures of modern photography and the only photographer among the great Mexican artists of the 20th century. Bravo has produced work of exceptional quality throughout his long career: formal experiments of the 1920s were followed by modernists works inspired by such international trends as Surrealism, and the early 30s saw him develop a gifted personal style that suggested specific Mexican customs and rituals. The majority of this volume's 175 tritone plates were made from rare vintage prints assembled from private collections or furnished by the artist; many have never before been published and some have not been seen or exhibited since the 1930s. This volume was published in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

KISMARIC, Susan

Museum of Modern Art

M. Alvarez Bravo

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Manuel Alvarez Bravo began photographing in 1924, during Mexico's thriving post-revolutionary artistic renaissance. His influences, from indigenous cultures to contemporary European trends, combined through his artistry to form a unique, transcendent vision rooted in the iconography of his country. While his early work embraced Mexico's urban realities, its peasants and workers, and its hauntingly beautiful landscape, Alvarez Bravo's ever-present acknowledgment of the macabre prompted André Breton, the leader of Surrealism in France, to claim him as an exponent of the movement. Prolific, uncompromising, and committed to advancing the arts of his country, nevertheless, public recognition eluded Alvarez Bravo, even in Mexico, until the 1970s, when his photographs were exhibited at the Pasadena Art Museum in California and at New York's Museum of Modern Art, in 1971. But it was not until 1997 that his work became widely known through a definitive exhibit of 185 photographs at the Museum of Modern Art and the simultaneous publication by Aperture of Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories. Manuel Alvarez Bravo won his first award in 1931, and then decided to pursue photography as a career. He met André Breton in 1939, and his work was subsequently included in Surrealist exhibitions in Paris. In 1942, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired their first works by Alvarez Bravo; in 1955, his photographs were included in Edward Steichen'sFamily of Man exhibition at MoMa. In 1959 Alvarez Bravo co-founded the Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana, with the goal of publishing books on Mexican art, which he co-directed until 1980, and from 1980 to 1986, he devoted his time to founding and developing the collection of the first Mexican Museum of Photography. Alvarez Bravo is the recipient of the Sourasky Art Prize (1974), the National Art Prize (Mexico, 1975), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1975), the Victor and Erna Hasselblad Prize (1984), and the International Center of Photography's Master of Photography Award (1987). Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories presents an intimate portrait of Mexico's revered photographer and, with his most beloved images, includes a selection of little-known work chosen with the photographer specifically for this classic monograph.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories (Aperture)

Kaufman, Frederick

Individual Artists

Aperture

Text by A.D. Coleman, 42 photographies. Brief chronology. Selected exhibitions. Selected bibliography / Testo di A.D. Coleman in inglese, tedesco e francese. Con 42 fotografie in bianco e nero. Nota biografica, attività esposita, bibliografia . 8vo pp. 94 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)

Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

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