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Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002) was Mexico's greatest photographer and one of the master photographers of the twentieth century. He ranks easily with the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, and Tina Modotti, who all knew him personally and admired his work. In a career that spanned eighty years he patiently captured scenes from both urban and rural life in and around Mexico City. A sense of mystery and symbolic depth pervades his photographs, which often seem to transmute their subjects into a dreamlike realm of stillness, solitude, and fantasy.
Sociedad de Arte Moderno, Mexico.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: fotografías.
México, 1945.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Text by Fred R. Parker.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Museum, 1971.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Text by Denis Roches.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
Paris: Photogalerie, 1976.
Livingston, Jane, with Alex Castro and Frances Fralin.
M. Alvarez Bravo.
Boston, MA: D. R. Godine; Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1978.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
México: Academia de Artes, 1980.
Paz, Octavio, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
Instante y revelación.
México: Editado por A. Muñoz para el Fondo Nacional para Actividades Sociales, 1982.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Text by Nissan N. Perez; essay by Ian Jeffrey.
Dreams - Visions - Metaphors: The Photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1983.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
Milano: Fabbri, 1983.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, 1985.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: 303 photographies, 1920-1986.
Paris: Paris-Audiovisuel; Direction des affaires culturelles de la Ville de Paris, 1986.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Essay by A. D. Coleman.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
New York: Aperture Foundation, 1987, 2005.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Edited by Teresa del Conde.
Mucho sol.
México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
San Diego, CA: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1990.
2nd ed. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press , 1992.
Poniatowska, Elena.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: el artista, su obra, sus tiempos.
México: Banco Nacional de México, 1991.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Caja de visiones: fotografías de Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1996.
Kismaric, Susan.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1997.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Variaciones, 1995-1997.
México: Centro de la Imagen, 1997.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Essay by Frederick Kaufman.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories.
New York: Aperture, 1997.
Paz, Octavio, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
Espíritus arbóreos.
México: XXVI Festival Internacional Cervantino, 1998.
Ollier, Brigitte.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
Paris: Hazan, 1999.
J. Paul Getty Museum.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Text by Carlos Monsivais.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: cien años, cien días.
Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes; Madrid: Turner Publicaciones, 2001.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
El ojo de Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
Paris: Maison de l'Amérique Latine, 2001.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Parábolas ópticas.
México: Museo Nacional de Arte, 2002.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Essay by Carlos Fuentes; edited and with a preface by Ariadne Kimberly Huque.
Nudes / Desnudos: The Photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2002.
Hopkinson, Amanda.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
London, New York: Phaidon, 2002.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
La Mirada de Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
México: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2002.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: retrospectiva 1902-2002, colección del Museo de Arte Moderno de México.
Bogotá, Colombia: Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, 2003.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Text by Colette Alvarez Urbajtel.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Polaroids.
Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2005.
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel.
Introduction by Rose Shoshana; text by Guillermo Sheridan.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Eyes in His Eyes.
Los Angeles, New York: DAP; Rose Gallery, 2007.
