Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Mr. Saderman's five simple, elegant studies of flora—the four stalks of "Flia Amarilidaceas, Fruit" (1934), shot against a black background, or the extravagant "Caesalpina Gillesi Yellow Bird of Paradise, Flower," (1934), shot against white—remind us that modernists such as Imogen Cunningham and Manuel Alvarez Bravo also did studies of plants.

Seeing Sights Far and Near William Meyers 2011

The second pays homage to a woman who studied under the late, great Manuel Alvarez Bravo and then helped redefine Mexican portraiture, documentary and landscape photography in the 80s and 90s with her evocative black-and-white images.

Les Rencontres d'Arles 2011 – review 2011

Manuel Alvarez Bravo uncovers a regional pictorial vocabulary in the seemingly quiet, patient timelessness of Mexican/Indian figures.

Mariana Yampolsky. 2009

Like the 20th-century photographers she most admired -- Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Manuel Alvarez Bravo -- she was drawn to the fraying edges of society.

Helen Levitt, No-Nonsense New Yorker 2009

At San Carlos Academy, she studied with Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907 – 1993), Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902 – 2002), the second wife of the noted Mexican photographer who, like her husband, was an exceptional Mexican photographer capturing the haunting duality of daily life in the country, where the past and present exist simultaneously.

Mariana Yampolsky. 2009

This is an extremely rare occurrence as in 18 years of dealing photographs, I have only lost one other print the Manuel Alvarez Bravo photograph “Good Reputation Sleeping”.

Archive 2008-06-01 The Year in Pictures 2008

The first two didn't do much for me, but the nudes were lively and there was one terrific Manuel Alvarez Bravo picture from 1938 with an interesting caption about how the artist had hired one model to pose for him for an entire year.

Archive 2008-01-01 The Year in Pictures 2008

The first two didn't do much for me, but the nudes were lively and there was one terrific Manuel Alvarez Bravo picture from 1938 with an interesting caption about how the artist had hired one model to pose for him for an entire year.

Letter from L.A. The Year in Pictures 2008

This is an extremely rare occurrence as in 18 years of dealing photographs, I have only lost one other print the Manuel Alvarez Bravo photograph “Good Reputation Sleeping”.

Found and Lost The Year in Pictures 2008

MoMA's first solo show dedicated to a living Mexican artist since its Manuel Alvarez Bravo exhibition in 1997 - not the first such show since its Diego Rivera show in 1931-2.

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