Topic: Manuel Alvarez Bravo

If a person were to question the value of photography as an art form, all that would be necessary to convince them of its worth would be to view the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo. He worked for a time as a ...

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

October 19, 2002, Mexico City), photographer who was most noted for his poetic images of Mexican people and places. Born into a family of artists and writers, Alvarez Bravo grew up in an "atmosphere in which art was breathed. Through his friendship ...

The Good Reputation Sleeping

Aspects of the topic The Good Reputation Sleeping are discussed in the following places at Britannica. In 1939 he was asked by Andre Breton, one of the founders of Surrealism, to provide a photograph for the cover of an exhibition catalog, and ...

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo, born in 1902, lived to be 100 and worked as a photographer in Mexico for eight decades. Bravo was one of a gifted generation of artists who pinned their hopes on revolution. An iconic group portrait shows Trotsky, Andr ...

Lola Alvarez Bravo

Lola Alvarez Bravo's work has often been overshadowed by the fame of her photographer husband, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, but her unique vision equally merits our attention. Lola began her life as Dolores Martinez de Anda in Jalisco, Mexico, and much of ...