Manuel Alvarez Bravo

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Manuel Alvarez Bravó has said of himself, "I was born in the city of Mexico, behind the Cathedral, in the place where the temples of the ancient Mexican gods must have been built." And as this selection of photographs shows, they too are deeply rooted in the culture of the Mexican people. Alvarez Bravo's unique eye for the monumental, the mundane, the mysterious reveals a vision of universal interest, rooted in the everyday yet always looking beyond. He focuses on the subtleties of humán i nteraction to make eloquent images of dreams, death, and transient life.
Since early in his photographic career, the photographs of Alvarez Bravó have been respected by artists from around the world. Paul Strand wrote of his work: "[Alvarez Bravó] is a man who has mastered the médium, which he respects meticulously and with which he wishes to speak with warmth about Mexico as Atget spoke about Paris."
Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Breton, Diego Rivera,... Tovább

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Manuel Alvarez Bravó has said of himself, "I was born in the city of Mexico, behind the Cathedral, in the place where the temples of the ancient Mexican gods must have been built." And as this selection of photographs shows, they too are deeply rooted in the culture of the Mexican people. Alvarez Bravo's unique eye for the monumental, the mundane, the mysterious reveals a vision of universal interest, rooted in the everyday yet always looking beyond. He focuses on the subtleties of humán i nteraction to make eloquent images of dreams, death, and transient life.
Since early in his photographic career, the photographs of Alvarez Bravó have been respected by artists from around the world. Paul Strand wrote of his work: "[Alvarez Bravó] is a man who has mastered the médium, which he respects meticulously and with which he wishes to speak with warmth about Mexico as Atget spoke about Paris."
Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Breton, Diego Rivera, Jósé Clemente Orozco, Luis Bunuel, and Sergei Eisenstein all admired his work.
It is only recently, however, that Alvarez Bravo's importance as a master of photography has been confir-med in a series of major retrospective exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York, the Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Biblioteca Nációnál, Madrid, and the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City.
Manuel Alvarez Bravó hat von sich gesagt: »Ich bin in Mexico City geboren, hinter der Kathedrale, an dem Platz, an dem die Tempel der altén mexikanischen Götter erbaut worden sein müssen.« Und wie diese Auswahl von Fotografien zeigt, sind auch sie tief in der Kultur des mexikanischen Volkes verwurzelt. Alvarez Bravos einma-liger Blick für das Monumentále, das Weltliche, das Mysteriöse zeugt von einer universell ausgerichteten Sicht, die im Alltáglichen wurzelt, immer aber auch darü-ber hinaus blickt. Er konzentriert sich auf die Feinheiten des zwischenmenschlichen Verhaltens, um beredte Bilder von Traumen, vom Tod und vom vergánglichen Leben zu schaffen.
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