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An outstanding exploration of a photographer educator and curator whose work both documented and created change in postRevolutionary Mexico This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Álvarez Bravo 19031993 one of Mexicos foremost photographers Álvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist commercial photographer portraitist and educator and played a critical role in her countrys cultural renaissance In the years following the Mexican Revolution she captured a profoundly transformative moment for the countrys land architecture and people She remains best known for these works and for her portraits of prominent modernists working in Mexico including Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros Lola Álvarez Bravonbspdelves into a lesserknown body of work in which attention to pattern light and abstraction guides the artists depictions of urban and rural landscapes and their inhabitants It also addresses her role in building and securing the legacy of the postRevolutionary period her dialogue with modernist photographers and her place within the broader cultural sphere offering new insight into the mutual influence she shared with prominent painters filmmakers and literary figures of her time
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An outstanding exploration of a photographer educator and curator whose work both documented and created change in postRevolutionary Mexico This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Álvarez Bravo 19031993 one of Mexicos foremost photographers Álvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist commercial photographer portraitist and educator and played a critical role in her countrys cultural renaissance In the years following the Mexican Revolution she captured a profoundly transformative moment for the countrys land architecture and people She remains best known for these works and for her portraits of prominent modernists working in Mexico including Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros Lola Álvarez Bravonbspdelves into a lesserknown body of work in which attention to pattern light and abstraction guides the artists depictions of urban and rural landscapes and their inhabitants It also addresses her role in building and securing the legacy of the postRevolutionary period her dialogue with modernist photographers and her place within the broader cultural sphere offering new insight into the mutual influence she shared with prominent painters filmmakers and literary figures of her time
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This first comprehensive monograph in English for Mexicos first major female photographer tracks a career equally exceptional for its remarkable range and for its compelling quality Lola Alvarez Bravo explored her calling through photojournalism commercial work and professional portraitmaking even as she was creating intensely personal images of people places and things throughout her native Mexico In addition she played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene as an inspiring teacher a friend of innumerable artists many of whom she photographed and as the owner of a prestigious gallery that presented the first solo show by her friend Frida Kahlo the subject of some of Alvarez Bravos most powerful portraits Although some of her photographs reflect the influence of her husband Manuel Alvarez Bravothey shared the same cameras and often the same roll of filmLola had achieved her own aesthetic by the 1940s and 50s concentrating on two particularly vivid bodies of work portraiture and street photography In these two disciplines she found a way to reveal a lyricism in the world around her producing quiet reveries on life lived in the moment This first Englishlanguage book to encompass the full range of her work includes previously unpublished images and several of her littleknown photomontages
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Mis fotos mis arte Throughout her photographic career as a photojournalist portraitist and political photographer Lola Alvarez Bravo kept a body of cherished images as her own art In Her Own Light is devoted to her work as an artist and includes those photographs of Mexico her true subject that place her among the renowned photographic interpreters of that country in the modern period Edward Weston Paul Strand Tina Modotti and Manuel Alvarez Bravo In her Own Light is the first overview of Lola Alvarez Bravos work published outside Mexico Thirtysix of her photographs from the Centers collection are presented in conjunction with a bilingual account of the experience and accomplishments of Lola Alvarez Bravo by art historian and Lola confidante Olivier Debroise His elucidating and intimate essay written in Spanish is translates by James Oles Also included are a chronology selected bibliography and a complete listing of the prints in the Lola Alvarez Bravo Collection as the Center for Creative Photography
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Lola Álvarez Bravo was a pioneer of photomontage and a leading figurealong with Frida Kahlo Tina Modotti Diego Rivera and othersin Mexicos postrevolution cultural renaissance Lola Álvarez Bravo and the Photography of an Era accompanies a touring exhibition presented at the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo in Mexico City the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach California and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Tucson in Arizona home of Álvarez Bravos archives It gathers 100 photographs and includes her wellknown portraits of Kahlo and Rivera as well as photographs only recently discovered in the González Rendón archive The selection not only demonstrates the great richness of the material contained in the archive but also throws new light on Álvarez Bravos working methods and provides a deeper understanding of the complexity of her career The photographs convey her uses of Surrealism and photomontage many examples of which are published here for the first time as well as her mastery of various genres from portraits of famous intellectuals and close friends to documentary images of urban and rural poverty in MexicoBorn Dolores Martinez de Anda to wealthy parents in the state of Jalisco Mexico Lola Álvarez Bravo 19901993 was abandoned by her mother in her early youth following her fathers death in her teen years she was sent to live with the family of her halfbrother in Mexico City It was here that she met the young Manuel Alvarez Bravo whom she married in 1925 She received her first commission in 1936 photographing the colonial choir stalls of a former church and in 1951 she opened an art gallery and was the first person to exhibit the paintings of Frida Kahlo
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La presente obra recoge alrededor de 100 fotografías en blanco y negro de la primera fotógrafa mexicana Sus imágenes están delicadamente tramadas de ironía y juegos visuales y presentan en algunos momentos la técnica del collage con una reinterpretación significativa de objetos y personas Con ideas depuradas y claras Álvarez Bravo muestra ángulos muy particulares de Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera la ciudad de México y diversos personajes de la vida cultural mexicana El libro incluye un estudio de Elizabeth Ferrer en el que se transcriben fragmentos de entrevistas con la fotógrafa y sus amistades
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Mis fotos mis arte Throughout her photographic career as a photojournalist portraitist and political photographer Lola Alvarez Bravo kept a body of cherished images as her own art In Her Own Light is devoted to her work as an artist and includes those photographs of Mexico her true subject that place her among the renowned photographic interpreters of that country in the modern period Edward Weston Paul Strand Tina Modotti and Manuel Alvarez Bravo In her Own Light is the first overview of Lola Alvarez Bravos work published outside Mexico Thirtysix of her photographs from the Centers collection are presented in conjunction with a bilingual account of the experience and accomplishments of Lola Alvarez Bravo by art historian and Lola confidante Olivier Debroise His elucidating and intimate essay written in Spanish is translates by James Oles Also included are a chronology selected bibliography and a complete listing of the prints in the Lola Alvarez Bravo Collection as the Center for Creative Photography
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This first comprehensive monograph in English for Mexicos first major female photographer tracks a career equally exceptional for its remarkable range and for its compelling quality Lola Alvarez Bravo explored her calling through photojournalism commercial work and professional portraitmaking even as she was creating intensely personal images of people places and things throughout her native Mexico In addition she played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene as an inspiring teacher a friend of innumerable artists many of whom she photographed and as the owner of a prestigious gallery that presented the first solo show by her friend Frida Kahlo the subject of some of Alvarez Bravos most powerful portraits Although some of her photographs reflect the influence of her husband Manuel Alvarez Bravothey shared the same cameras and often the same roll of filmLola had achieved her own aesthetic by the 1940s and 50s concentrating on two particularly vivid bodies of work portraiture and street photography In these two disciplines she found a way to reveal a lyricism in the world around her producing quiet reveries on life lived in the moment This first Englishlanguage book to encompass the full range of her work includes previously unpublished images and several of her littleknown photomontages
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Lola Álvarez Bravo was a pioneer of photomontage and a leading figurealong with Frida Kahlo Tina Modotti Diego Rivera and othersin Mexicos postrevolution cultural renaissance Lola Álvarez Bravo and the Photography of an Era accompanies a touring exhibition presented at the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo in Mexico City the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach California and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Tucson in Arizona home of Álvarez Bravos archives It gathers 100 photographs and includes her wellknown portraits of Kahlo and Rivera as well as photographs only recently discovered in the González Rendón archive The selection not only demonstrates the great richness of the material contained in the archive but also throws new light on Álvarez Bravos working methods and provides a deeper understanding of the complexity of her career The photographs convey her uses of Surrealism and photomontage many examples of which are published here for the first time as well as her mastery of various genres from portraits of famous intellectuals and close friends to documentary images of urban and rural poverty in MexicoBorn Dolores Martinez de Anda to wealthy parents in the state of Jalisco Mexico Lola Álvarez Bravo 19901993 was abandoned by her mother in her early youth following her fathers death in her teen years she was sent to live with the family of her halfbrother in Mexico City It was here that she met the young Manuel Alvarez Bravo whom she married in 1925 She received her first commission in 1936 photographing the colonial choir stalls of a former church and in 1951 she opened an art gallery and was the first person to exhibit the paintings of Frida Kahlo
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La presente obra recoge alrededor de 100 fotografías en blanco y negro de la primera fotógrafa mexicana Sus imágenes están delicadamente tramadas de ironía y juegos visuales y presentan en algunos momentos la técnica del collage con una reinterpretación significativa de objetos y personas Con ideas depuradas y claras Álvarez Bravo muestra ángulos muy particulares de Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera la ciudad de México y diversos personajes de la vida cultural mexicana El libro incluye un estudio de Elizabeth Ferrer en el que se transcriben fragmentos de entrevistas con la fotógrafa y sus amistades
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This engrossing book presents the photographs of four historically engaged artists and explains what they reveal about the highly dramatic revolutionary and postrevolutionary period in Mexico from 1910 to 1935 The works of these photographersAmerican Walter H Horne Italian Tina Modotti and Mexicans Agustín Víctor Casasolanbsp and Manuel Álvarez Bravoare discussed not just as windows onto events but as artworks that offer both objective reporting and stylized expressionnbspThe twentyfive years covered in the book encompass some of the most convulsive developments in Mexico from the violence and cataclysmic changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution to the immense struggles to forge a new nation and a new government During this period the work of the four photographerstwo primarily documentarynbsp one propagandistic and one artistic and personalenabled Mexicans to understand the forces that had brought their nation to armed conflict and social transformation
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This engrossing book presents the photographs of four historically engaged artists and explains what they reveal about the highly dramatic revolutionary and postrevolutionary period in Mexico from 1910 to 1935 The works of these photographersAmerican Walter H Horne Italian Tina Modotti and Mexicans Agustín Víctor Casasolanbsp and Manuel Álvarez Bravoare discussed not just as windows onto events but as artworks that offer both objective reporting and stylized expressionnbspThe twentyfive years covered in the book encompass some of the most convulsive developments in Mexico from the violence and cataclysmic changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution to the immense struggles to forge a new nation and a new government During this period the work of the four photographerstwo primarily documentarynbsp one propagandistic and one artistic and personalenabled Mexicans to understand the forces that had brought their nation to armed conflict and social transformation
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FIRST EDITION Mexico Banamex 1991 Oblong hardcover in pictorial dust jacket 4to 57 pages of text plus 82 plates printed oneside only SpanishEnglish edition Minor shelfwear else very good overall condition no owner marking NOT EXLIBRARY pc
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The career of Manuel Alvarez Bravo b 1902 spans many decades and reflects numerous changes in artistic fashion A selftaught photographer he purchased his first camera at the age of twenty and around 1925 he won first prize in a photographic competition in Oaxaca He returned to his birthplace of Mexico City and in 1927 met Tina Modotti who introduced him to many Modernists in the citys lively art scene Among them was Edward Weston who encouraged Alvarez Bravo to continue his photography Though his work went unrecognized in mainstream art circles for years Alvarez Bravo is now considered by many to be one of Mexicos great artists The Getty Museums collection of photographs includes more than ninety by Alvarez Bravo and approximately fifty are reproduced here with commentary on each image by Roberto Tejada an independent curator and critic who also provides an introduction to the book and a chronological overview of the artists life The photographs reproduced display the array of styles themes and moods that typify art created in Mexico during the 1930s as Modernism first flowered in that country they also include examples of his work from later decades In Focus Manuel Alvarez Bravo is published to coincide with an exhibition of his photographs at the Getty Museum from November 13 2001 through February 17 2002 commemorating the artists 100th birthday on February 4th This book also includes an edited transcript of a colloquium on Alvarez Bravos career with participants David Featherstone independent editor and curator Colette Alvarez Urbajtel the photographers wife and herself a practicing photographer Pablo Ortiz Monasterio photographer and independent curator Charles Merewether collections curator at the Getty Research Institute Cristina CuevasWolf independent scholar Weston Naef curator of photographs at the Getty Museum Susan Kismaric curator of photographs at the Museum of Modern Art and Roberto Tejada
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Massive retrospective collection of the photographers work Limited Edition of 1000 copies Published simultaneosuly with the trade edition in Spanish of 3000 copies A magisterial book Oversizevolume format A very large and heavy book Cloth boards with titles on spine as issued Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo In pictorial DJ as issued Presents Manuel Alvarez Bravos lifework which established him as the greatest LatinAmerican photographer of the 20th century and a national treasure in his native Mexico Bravo turned 100 in 2002 and a celebration of his unsurpassable achievement was clearly in order The book is a fitting tribute to a great artist who proved that being an artist is one of the best ways to live a long and happy life Manuel Alvarez Bravo died on October 19 2002 and his centenary has thus taken on a sad note as well as the intended celebratory one His death was mourned by his countrymen and his millions of admirers throughout the world The photographers last book a celebration of an artists life lived to the fullest 2005 ModernRarecom
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Frida Kahlo leans against a concrete wall looking somberly down while an anklelength skirt flutters around her Elsewhere the tight screws of plough blades stack interlocked on a warehouse floor utilitarian subjects coalescing into a heady abstract pattern From his first days as a photographerwith the backing of such greats as Tina Modotti Edward Weston Paul Strand and Henri CartierBressonManuel Alvarez Bravo worked over a wide range of styles and subject matterformalist abstraction architecture interiors landscapes still lifes and portraitswith a consistent focus on the landscape and social geography of Mexico In his concise vision of his homeland it was both a real and symbolic landscape populated with subjects detained in dream world tableaux of desire solitude candor and foreboding Eyes in His Eyes reintroduces some of the artists overlooked masterpieces and reveals for the first time a broad selection of neverbeforeseen images from his private archives In his 80year career Alvarez Bravo printed published and exhibited only a thousand images This portfolio culled with the help of the artist himself and completed after his death is full of unfamiliar abstractions portraits landscapes and street photography It provides an invaluable reentry into the visual poetry of one of Mexicos most gifted artists and a Modern master of photography
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo is one of the foremost figures of modern photography and the only photographer among the great Mexican artists of the 20th century Bravo has produced work of exceptional quality throughout his long career formal experiments of the 1920s were followed by modernists works inspired by such international trends as Surrealism and the early 30s saw him develop a gifted personal style that suggested specific Mexican customs and rituals The majority of this volumes 175 tritone plates were made from rare vintage prints assembled from private collections or furnished by the artist many have never before been published and some have not been seen or exhibited since the 1930s This volume was published in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art New York
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From 1973 to 1974 Lee Friedlander and Burt Wolf edited four iconic portfolios at the Double Elephant Press in New York featuring photographs by some of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century Manuel Álvarez Bravo Walker Evans Garry Winogrand and Friedlander himself What started out as a rare match between artistic ability and craftsmanship became the en passant invention of the limited and signed photographers portfolio as we know it today Each of the four limitededition portfolios contained 15 photographs by each artist representing their distinct visions that can be described in the words of Walker Evans as oddly refreshing unselfconsciously striking and unpredictably adventurous This edition honors this unique collaborative project that was to become a touchstone in the history of photography
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