Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Cinematographer, Visual Artist
1902 – 2002
Who was Manuel Álvarez Bravo?
Manuel Álvarez Bravo was Mexico’s first principal artistic photographer and is the most important figure in 20th-century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academy of San Carlos, his photography is self-taught. His career spanned from the late 1920s to the 1990s with is artistic peak between the 1920s to the 1950s. His hallmark as a photographer was to capture images of the ordinary but in ironic or surrealistic ways. His early work was based on European influences, but he was soon influenced by the Mexican muralism movement and the general cultural and political push at the time to redefine Mexican identity. He rejected the picturesque, employing elements to avoid stereotyping. Over his career he had numerous exhibitions of his work, worked in the Mexican cinema and established Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana publishing house. He won numerous awards for his work, mostly after 1970.
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- Born
- Feb 4, 1902
Mexico City - Also known as
- Manuel Alvarez Bravo
- Spouses
- Lola Alvarez Bravo
(1925 - 1934) - Doris Heyden
- Colette Alvarez-Urbajtel
(1962 - 2002/10/19)
- Lola Alvarez Bravo
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Mexicans
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Profession
- Education
- Academy of San Carlos
Painting
- Academy of San Carlos
- Employment
- National School of Arts
(1938 - 1939) - Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos
- National School of Arts
- Lived in
- Mexico City
( - 2002/10/19)
- Mexico City
- Died
- Oct 19, 2002
Mexico City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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