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Biography
M A N U E L  A L V A R E Z  B R A V O  ( 1 9 0 2  –  2 0 0 2 ,  M E X I C O )

Regarded as one of the great modernists of the twentieth century, the Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902 – 2002) documented the everyday, transforming it into something fantastical. He received his first photographic camera in 1923 and in 1930 started his career working as a freelance documentary photographer for Mexican Folkway, a magazine covering the cultural history of Mexico. He inherited the role from the Italian photographer Tina Modotti. This post, followed by his association revolutionary artists and writers including the social realist artists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco, influenced and inspired his work.

While often political and referencing the Mexican Revolution, Álvarez Bravos’s work is clearly surrealist. Inanimate objects acquire human qualities and there is a pervading dreamlike quality to his photography. Álvarez Bravo created beautiful, sensitive images of everyday Mexico up until his death in 2002 aged 100.

Manuel Álvarez Bravo is considered a key figure in Mexican and Latin American photography. His work has been published and exhibited internationally.

Source: The Photographers Gallery

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Gallery
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