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Exhibit explores, celebrates African presence in Mexico San Antonio Express, TX - Nov 29, 2008 Contemporary images by photographers such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky bring the exhibition up to the present, along with a handful of ...

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photopoetry

Manuel Alvarez Bravo was one of the foremost practitioners of visual arts in the twentieth century. Manuel Alvarez Bravo the first major retrospective of his eighty-year career showcases hundreds of iconic photographs and unveils more than twenty previously unpublished images. Featuring landscapes still lifes rural and urban scenes religious and vernacular subjects as well as portraits of luminaries such as Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz the work is chronologically arranged and richly varied.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Polaroids

by: Colete Alvarez Urbajtel
Long one of Mexico's masters of photography, Manuel Alvarez Bravo's collection of poloroid images gives an intimate view of some private moments. In photography, many newcomers concentrate on buying the latest and greatest equipment to produce that 'perfect' image, rather than focus on visualization. In this book, the master photographer proves why it's the photographer not the camera that makes the shot.

Every picture is a joy to see. Pick this book up, while it's still available.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Nudes: The Blue House

This book is beautilly edited and beautifully printed on somehow matte paper, prints are somehow very light, delicate. As these photographs are : light, delicate. For me this is the best nude photography I have ever seen. I also like very much the nude photographs made by Edward Weston. But for Weston the nude is a study of lines and forms, at least this shows in a lot of his photographs. For Alvarez Bravo women and beauty are more than that. By the way Alvarez Bravo photographed these women I have these two thoughts : Alvarez Bravo liked photography very much but he loved women a whole lot more.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Eyes in His Eyes

by: Guillermo Sheridan
Frida Kahlo leans against a concrete wall, looking somberly down while an ankle-length skirt flutters around her. Elsewhere, the tight screws of plough blades stack interlocked on a warehouse floor, utilitarian subjects coalescing into a heady abstract pattern. 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.

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