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AUTHOR: Laura Gonzalez Flores / Gerardo Mosquera / Roberto Tejada / Alvaro Vazquez Mantecon
SIZE: 31 x 3.5 x 25 cm
PAGES: 285
LANGUAGE: English
PUBLISHER: FUNDACION MAPFRE, 2012

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▪️ MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO
Authors: Gerardo Mosquera, Ivan de la Nue, Catherine David

Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by Fundación MAPFRE, this catalogue traces the breadth of Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s practice across nearly eight decades.

Álvarez Bravo began photographing in the late 1920s, at a moment when Mexico was redefining itself after the Revolution. His work grew alongside that transformation. Streets of Mexico City, fragments of the body, vernacular architecture, found objects, gestures caught in passing. The images resist folklore and spectacle. They are precise, often quiet, sometimes edged with irony.

The selection of approximately 150 photographs focuses on recurring motifs in his work: reflections and illusions within the modern city, forms that shift between figure and abstraction, objects carrying an ambiguous charge. His photography moves between documentary attention and a restrained, surreal current rooted in everyday life.

Time is central to his language. The catalogue places still photographs in dialogue with experimental film work from the 1960s and includes late colour images and Polaroids. Seen together, they show an artist who continued to refine his vision without yielding to fashion or cliché.

With essays by Gerardo Mosquera, Iván de la Nuez and Catherine David, this volume offers a considered overview of one of the defining figures of twentieth-century Latin American photography.

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  • AUTHOR: Laura Gonzalez Flores / Gerardo Mosquera / Roberto Tejada / Alvaro Vazquez Mantecon
  • TITLE: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
  • PUBLISHER: FUNDACION MAPFRE
  • YEAR: 2012
  • COVER: Hardcover
  • PAGES: 285
  • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 3.5 x 25 cm
  • LANGUAGE: English
  • ISBN: 978-84-9844-396-7
  • CONDITION: Excellent
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A book with a red spine features a black-and-white cover showing a concrete wall and a sloped pile of gravel.

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

€50
A book with a red spine features a black-and-white cover showing a concrete wall and a sloped pile of gravel.
A hardcover book with a red spine and a cover featuring geometric patterns in gray tones and a gravel texture.
Four cyclists ride across a flat, open landscape with distant mountains under a wide, pale sky.
A woman leans over a rough wall beneath several tall vertical pipes against a partly cloudy sky. The word 'Seeing' appears at the top.
A child in patterned clothing sits against a large wooden door with metal studs; on the right, a woman leans on a railing outside a building.
Left page shows a large bell suspended between two wooden posts on bare ground; right page shows a small wooden structure with three tall trees.
A person uses a long-handled brush on a sunlit wall; opposite, three large wooden crosses stand on a hillside with scattered figures nearby.
Two red hardcover books; one cover features a grayscale photograph of a concrete wall and gravel, the other is solid red with white text.

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

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