Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Presented by Shannon WilliamsNovember 5, 2013

Media 175 Principles of Digital

Photography

Manuel Alvarez Bravo1902 - 2002

“The important thing in a photographer is

his work, his sincerity, his ability to transcend

the documentary to achieve human fulfillment ...”

-Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Manuel Alvarez Bravo is considered the main representative of Latin

American photography in the 20th century. He dropped out of school

at the age of twelve in order to make a contribution to his family’s

finances after his fathers death. Introduced to photography early in life, Manuel Alvarez soon became a

self-taught photographer and an emblematic figure in the Latin

community following the Mexican Revolution.

Optical Parable, 1931

Sea Dog, 1950

Absent Portrait, 1945-46

“A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may

seem, many photographers choose

to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead

of their own. Those photographers are

blind.”– Manuel Alvarez

Bravo

Cactus Landscape, 1968

Posthumous Portrait, 1934-39

“One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same

happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits...”

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

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