Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Mexican · 1902–2002 · Photographer
Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico… (Wikipedia)
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Retrato de lo Eterno (Portrait of the Eternal)Phillips · $106,250≈ £85,417≈ €99,756Sign up to see
Los Obstaculos (The Obstacles)Phillips · $50,000≈ £40,196≈ €46,944Sign up to see
Los Agachados (The crouched ones)Phillips · $43,750≈ £33,054≈ €37,225Sign up to see
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, his photography is self-taught. His career spanned from the late 1920s to the 1990s with its artistic peak between the 1920s and 1950s. His hallmark as a photographer was to capture images of the ordinary but in ironic or Surrealistic ways. His early work was based on European influences, but he was soon influenced by the Mexican muralism movement and the general cultural and political push at the time to redefine Mexican identity. He rejected the picturesque, employing elements to avoid stereotyping. He had numerous exhibitions of his work, worked in the Mexican cinema and established Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana publishing house. He won numerous awards for his work, mostly after 1970. His work was recognized by inclusion on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register in 2017.
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Also known as Alvarez Bravo, M. Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo, Manuel Bravo
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