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BRAVO, MANUEL ALVAREZ (1902-2002)
"Recuerdo de Atzompan" [Remembrance from Atzompan]. Silver print, 7 3/4x9 3/4 inches (19.7x24.8 cm.), with Bravo's signature and notations, in pencil, on mount recto. 1943
- Notes: this print was gifted by bravo to his friend rafael donis, a prominent mexican photographer. The photograph is reproduced as plate 23 (in reverse), in Jane Livingston's m. alvarez bravo (Boston and Washington, D. C., 1978), where she writes: "To Alvarez Bravo the richness of Mexico is a quotidian experience, one which he presents simply, monumentalizing the real, not the fictive.. . More often than not, the titles extend the implications of the photographs, becoming metaphoric, drawing the viewer to relationships beyond the purely photographic. And it is this literary aspect, along with the exotic nature of the work, that makes Alvarez Bravo's photographs yield only slowly to understanding."
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