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
The End
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