In the 1930s, Álvarez Bravo met Paul Strand, traveling with him while he worked in Mexico, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. With Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans he exhibited in a three-man show at the Julien Levy Gallery, New York, in 1935. Mexico was a cultural hub for many in the international avant-garde in these years; André Breton visited, including Álvarez Bravo in the Exposition of Surrealism he organized in 1940 in Mexico City. Although the artist never identified with Surrealism, it was a major theme in the analysis of his pictures throughout his career. Revealing the influence of his formative years following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Álvarez Bravo would instead speak of his interest in representing the cultural heritage, peasant population, and indigenous roots of the Mexican people in the face of rapid modernization." - MoMA
Additional Artworks
From Villanova University Art Collection
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John Castagno
Untitled, 1998
Photograph
3.75 x 5.75 in
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John Castagno
Under I95, c. 1998
Color photograph
4 x 6 in
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Werner Rosenthal
Untitled, 1930
Color photograph
6 x 4 in
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Alen MacWeeney
Two Ghillies, Lough Beltra, Galway
Archival pigment print
14.5 x 21.25 in
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Cardinal Prospero Grech
Turkish Bazaar
B&W photograph
11 x 17 in
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Cardinal Prospero Grech
Turkey
B&W photograph
11 x 17 in
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Ralph Gibson
Untitled (From Political Abstraction)
Photograph
17 x 22 in
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Ralph Gibson
Untitled (From Mono, P. 81)
22 x 17 in
About the artist
Manuel Alvarez-Bravo
