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Creator
Manuel Álvarez BravoMexican Photographer · 1902–2002
All works by this person →A self-taught photographer, Manuel Alvarez Bravo purchased his first camera at age twenty while working at a government job. His earliest success at photography came around 1925, when he won first prize in a local photographic competition in Oaxaca. He returned to Mexico City, where he had been born, and in 1927 met Tina Modotti, who introduced him to a lively intellectual and cultural environment
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Mexican
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- d839a9f6-6a7e-4e0f-b611-61bf5c5bd332
From the Getty Museum record
Driven by his desire to show "the tragic side of reality," Manuel Alvarez Bravo photographed numerous rural burial sites. In this image the small wooden cross marking this mound as a freshly covered grave is barely visible behind the lush plant that fills the composition. A row of stacked stones in the background points to a realm outside the picture's frame. The devotional practices of the Mexican people and the interplay of artifact and landscape are frequent themes in Alvarez Bravo's work.
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