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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
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- negative 1996; print 1998
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Mexican
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 634dd7a8-2e7d-4b34-8e94-b832459ed138
A self-portrait of the photographer with camera raised to his face, reflected in the passenger side rear-view mirror of an automobile. A landscape lies beyond the mirror.
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