Artist: Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902 - 2002)
Nationality: Mexican
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Manuel Alvarez Bravo bought his first camera at the age of twenty and continued to teach himself how to use it successfully. In 1925, he won his first award at a local photographic competition in Oaxaca. He then returned to his birthplace of Mexico City where he met Tina Modotti in 1927. She introduced him to an array of other artists, notably Edward Weston, who encouraged Alvarez to continue in photography. Three years later, Alvarez began teaching at the San Carlos Academy. He also documented the work of Mexican mural painters and distributed the images to publications such as the journal, Mexican Folkways. Alvarez preferred to take pictures of nudes, and folk art such as burial decorations and rituals.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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The Day Dream
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What a Small World
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Daughter of the Dancers
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The Good Reputation 1, 2, 3
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Paisaje Chamula c. 1979 Gelatin Silver print Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Mexican
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Manuel Salvador Carmona, Portrait of Don Fernando de Silva Alvarez de Toledo, 12th Duke of Alba, 1786
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Sea of Tears
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Paul Pontius, Portrait of Dom Alvarez Bazan, Marquis de St. Croix, 17th century
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Francisco JosÈ de Goya y Lucientes, Brabisimo! (Bravo!), plate 38 from the series Los Caprichos (Caprices), 1799
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Francisco JosÈ de Goya y Lucientes, Brabisimo! (Bravo!), plate 38 from the series Los Caprichos (Caprices), 1799
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Hesiquio Iriarte, EL Exómo. Sir. Góral. DE DIVISION D. Juan Alvarez, 19th - 20th century
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Cham (AmÈdÈe Charles Henri de NoÈ), Nos Gentils Hommes:Bravo Marquis! Tu arrives le premier., 19th century
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Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes - Don Manuel Garcia de la Prada c. 1810 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center Spanish
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Manuel Alegre, San Geronimo, 1788
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Hesiquio Iriarte, El M.R.P.FR. Manuel Alfaro, circa 1880
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Manuel Lopez Lopez, B. Francisco De Geronimo., 1810
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Manuel Robbe, La Visiteuse, 19th century
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Loren R. Barton, Manuel, 19th - 20th century
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Manuel Valencia, Mission Dolores, 19th - 20th century
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Hans Rudolf Manuel, Veronese Theater, 16th century
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Manuel Salvador Carmona, Music and the Theatre, 18th - 19th century
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Manuel Salvador Carmona, Music and Religion, 18th - 19th century
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Manuel Salvador Carmona, Music and Poetry, 18th - 19th century
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Hans Rudolf Manuel, Three Travelers in a Landscape, 16th century
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Jose Manuel Lanus, Projecto Para Decoracion, 20th century
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Manuel Orazi, ThÈ‚tre de LoÔe Fuller (poster for the Exposition Universelle), 1900
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Manuel Neri, Couple of Girls, pl. 8 in the portfolio, 10 West Coast Artists, 1967
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F. E. Joubert, Manuel de l*amateur d*estampes by F. E. Joubert (Paris: the author, 1821), vol. 1, 1821
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F. E. Joubert, Manuel de l*amateur d*estampes by F. E. Joubert (Paris: the author, 1821), vol. 2, 1821
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F. E. Joubert, Manuel de l*amateur d*estampes by F. E. Joubert (Paris: the author, 1821), vol. 3, 1821
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Daniel Nicholas Chodowiecki, [Title page: Manuel], 18th - 19th century
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Manuel Salvador Carmona, The Image of the Holy Virgin with the Infant Christ, 1763
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George Overbury "Pop" Hart, Hawaiian Cowboy, Manuel Kudava, 1903
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Guitar, 1912 Probably made by Santos Hernández, foreman for Manuel RamírezMadrid, SpainWood; Total L. 38
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M. Huber, Manuel des curieux et des amateurs de l*art by M. Huber and C.C. H. Rost(Paris: Fuchs, 1797), vols. 1 and 2 in 1 vol., 1797
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Mabel Alvarez - Arabella with Calla Lillies 1934 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Austin de Croze, Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L"Art Nouveau, 1896), 1896
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Austin de Croze, Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L"Art Nouveau, 1896), 1896
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Austin de Croze, Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L"Art Nouveau, 1896), 1896
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Austin de Croze, Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L"Art Nouveau, 1896), 1896

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Throckmorton Fine Art: Women of Mexico: Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo, Marianna Yampolsky, Graciela Iturbide, Flor Garduno and Marcela Taboada
The opportunity to see the work of these artists displayed side by side in a group show demonstrates the many parallels in their work. The influence of the Mexican master Manuel Alvarez Bravo is evident with each of the five photographers. Lola ...
Throckmorton Fine Art: LOLA!: Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo
Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907–1993) approached photography from many different points of view. She worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, professional portraitist, and political artist. Over many decades she contributed to the cultural...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Men of Mexico: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Hector Garcia, Edward Weston, Fritz Henle, and Gerardo Suter
Collectively displaying photographs by these artists demonstrates many parallels in their lives and work. During his stay in Mexico, e.g., Edward Weston began a new direction while maturing as an artist, and through the suggestion of Tina Modotti...
eStudio: Guido Alvarez online
His paintings reflects the colonial architecture of the city of Cuenca, a city that is being considered as cadidate for the title of Humankind Treasure by the United Nations....
Helsinki City Art Museum, Tennis Palace: TINA MODOTTI: The Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti's career as a photographer began in Mexico in the 1920s. This was the time of the Mexican Renaissance, when artists explored Mexico's Indian cultures and traditions in search of an authentic and original Mexican identity. ...
Phoenix Art Museum: Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum
From daguerreotypes to digital prints, it includes masterworks by such innovators and icons of the medium as Alfred Stieglitz, Matthew Brady, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Cecil Beaton, Walker...
Photofusion Photography Centre: Eulogy to Beauty:
The concern here is not with nudity for its own sake, but with the aesthetics of beauty. However, it is a commonplace that the male - and indeed often female - gaze finds its target for this aesthetic in the feminine form, and the erotic represent...
City Gallery: VIVA LA VIDA - Frida KAHLO, Diego RIVERA and MEXICAN MODERNISM
Frida and Diego on their wedding day… demonstrating together… meeting art patrons in America… relaxing at home with their pets… embracing tenderly at the kitchen table….The 80 photographs in Frida y Diego, Amores y Desamores (‘Love and Disaffecti...
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Bridging the Border: Shared Themes in Mexican and U.S. Art 1900 – 1950
Four themes: The City, Rural Traditions, Responses to European Modernism, and Protest and Persuasion break the show into sections that highlight areas of exchange during the first fifty years of the 20th century. Each category compares works by ...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Diego y Frida: Photographs by Various Photographers
Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) is not only the most outstanding of contemporary Mexican painters, an artist of unequaled vastness of conception; he is also the most prolific. He stands as the example of a painter who, having assimilated and utilized ...
Parrish Art Museum: Images of the Spirit: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide, Mexican Folk Masks from the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York
Iturbide's work was influenced by two of the best-known earlier photographers of Mexico: Tina Modotti, recognized as one of the first socially concerned photographers, and Modotti's friend Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who began to photogr...
Helsinki City Art Museum's Tennis Palace galleries: Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was fond of telling stories and some of them have become legends about his own life. However, it is known that in his youth Rivera was a member of the circle of artists in Montparnasse in Paris, together with Picasso and other...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: The First Annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition Opens Today
Collectors, curators, and photographers will have an extraordinary opportunity to view thousands of images. The fair is organized by Stephen Cohen, organizer of photo l.a., The Lo...
photo l.a. 2000: 9th LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT EXPOSITION
Works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Sebastian Salgado, Josef Sudek, Weegee, Edward Weston an...
Yale School of Art, Holcombe T. Green Jr. Gallery: Intersections/ Intersecciones: An Exhibition of Cuban Artists
Artists participating in this show are Giovanni Bosch, Christian Curiel, Florencio Gelabert, Coco Fusco, Marco Lau, Leonel Matheu, Julio Armando Mendoza, Maritza Molina, Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui, Chantal Perez, Hugo Perez, Jesus Rivera and Leandro So...
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: Moments in Time: Master Photographs from the Currier
I think there is enough variety in this exhibit to pique people's interest,'' says Maureen Ahern, director of the Thorne-Sagendorph. Photographs range from portraits of scientists Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin to artists Andy Warhol and...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: photo san francisco 2001 Opens Tomorrow
Works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Sebastian Salgado, Josef Sudek, Weegee, Edward Weston an...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: World Without End - Photography and the 20th Century
World Without End brings together some 200 works of acclaimed ...
photo l.a. 2003, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Inc.: 12th annual Los Angeles International Photographic Print Exposition Opens
BENEFIT RECEPTION - January 16th, 6-9pm The opening night preview reception will benefit the Photographic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has one of the major collections of photogr...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: World Views Exhibition

The exhibition at the New Museum will include works by Simon Aldridge, Naomi Ben-Shahar, Monika Bravo, Laurie Halsey Brown, Justine Cooper, Lucky Debellevue, Carola Dertnig, Mahmoud Hamadani, Kara Hammond, Jeff Konigsberg, Motonobu Kurokawa, Ge...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: Third Annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition at Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
Collectors, curators, and photographers will have an extraordinary opportunity to view thousands of images. The fair is organized by Stephen Cohen, organizer of photo l.a., the Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition which celebrated it’s eleve...
Museum for Latin American Art: Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island
Artists included in the exhibition are: Pedro Alvarez, Belkis Ayon, Abel Barroso, Jacqueline Brito, Yamilys Brito, Los Carpinteros, Carlos Estevez, Rene Francisco, Carlos Garaicoa, Luis Gomez, KCHO, Sandra Ramos, Fernando Rodriguez, Esterio S...
Center for Creative Photography: The Ansel Adams Centennial: Classic Images and A Portrait of Ansel Adams
The Ansel Adams Centennial is drawn from the Ansel Adams Archive at CCP, the largest repository of his work in the world. The archive includes voluminous correspondence, book layouts and manuscripts, ledgers, periodicals and monographs, camera...
Speakeasy Cafe: Blackchair Productions to present Independent Exposure
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PHotoEspana: Call for Artists: Descubrimientos04 (Discoveries04)
You just have to present a photographic project containing no more than 15 images (B/W or colour) on paper (photographic paper or laser photocopies). The format must not exceed 30 x 40 cm (12 x 16 inches). Fill out the registration form and send i...
Side Street Projects: Projections: intermission images VIII - HMO/SUV/IPO
The exhibiton at the Laemmle Grande Fourplex Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, located on Figueroa between Third and Fourth Streets includes artists: C. Ian White; Barbara Strasen; Andrea Katz-Evans; Nizan Shaked; Manya Tan; Rebeca Puga; Michele ...
High Museum: Ansel Adams and His Legacy
In addition to the "Classic Images" collection, this exhibition will focus on the important legacy of Ansel Adams' influence on the photographers that followed him. A selection of works in the section entitled "Ansel Adams and His Legacy" will f...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: Fourth annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition Opens Today
Collecting Seminars are held before public hours, at 9 a.m., and are limited to 30 people. This year seminar hosts are Keith Davis, of The Hallmark Collection, Robert Flynn Johnson, curator in charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at T...
J. Paul Getty Center: Photographers of Genius at the Getty
From Hippolyte Bayard to Diane Arbus, the influential pioneers presented here span more than a century of photography, from the earliest years of the new art form in the late 1830s to the late 1960s. Each photographer featured in the exhibition ad...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: World Views Open Studio Exhibition
New Museum Henry Luce III Director Lisa Phillips said: It is crucial for cultural institutions to work together now and we felt it was important to support a vital downtown arts institution in need. The exhibition at the New Museum will pres...

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Masters of Photography: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Getty Museum)
Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Getty Exhibitions)
Manuel-Alvarez Bravo artist portrait, brief biography and art
Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Great Mexican Photographer
Amazon.com: Books: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Ironizing Mexico by John Mraz
Amazon.com: Books: Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Masters of Photography Series)
Manuel Alvarez Bravo Online
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