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[En un pueblo (In a Village)]
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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- 1942–1945
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Mexican
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- f16e9e07-47d7-483c-af5b-3974929d6e42
Oblivious to the figure seated behind her, a young woman with a baby on her back emerges from a house functioning as a general store. Manuel Alvarez Bravo's photograph captures a moment of suspended motion, in which the young woman's half-lifted foot hovers above the ground. Her shawl's tassels swing in the air and, from afar, appears to brush the seated woman's arm. Alvarez Bravo sometimes referred to this image as *Sueño de una turista,* meaning *Tourist's Dream*. The tourist here is Doris Heydn, his second wife, whose socks and huraches emphasize her foreign origins. Heydn had accompanied Alvarez Bravo on a photography expedition to the countryside. Unaccustomed to extended periods of time in the relentless sun, Heydn was soon exhausted. The two women, oblivious to each other though separated by a few steps, create an ambiguous tension.
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