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[Burro Grazing]
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
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- 1930s
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Mexican
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 9935bf1c-cfd5-496b-8401-4618492eb41a
Manuel Alvarez Bravo's photograph of a burro grazing beneath a cross-section of a wooden post makes direct reference to Christianity. This image was made in a small village, amid the comings and goings of the local residents. Alvarez Bravo's sense of humor is at play in this seemingly ordinary scene. The burro, a creature noted for its stubbornness and stupidity, finds nourishment at the foot of the cross, while the villagers appear to turn their backs on it, and on salvation.
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