Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photopoetry - Softcover

ALVAREZ URBAJTEL

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500543631 ISBN 13: 9780500543634

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

The definitive monograph on Manuel Alvarez Bravo, a true master of modern photography

This major retrospective documents and celebrates the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the most significant force in Mexican photography and one of the foremost visual arts practitioners of the twentieth century.

Over 370 tritone photographs mark Alvarez Bravo’s remarkable eighty-year career. Strikingly poetic and richly resonant, the collection includes iconic images as well as over thirty previously unpublished masterpieces. Urban and rural scenes, still lifes, nudes, religious and vernacular subjects, portraits of luminaries including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Octavio Paz: all illustrate the peerless acuity of the photographer’s eye. Above all, Alvarez Bravo’s work celebrates his beloved Mexico, with its indigenous rituals and age-old customs.

Complete with a preface by Alvarez Bravo’s widow Colette Alvarez Urbajtel, illuminating essays by internationally renowned writers John Banville, Jean-Claude Lemagny and Carlos Fuentes, as well as a full chronology and bibliography, this is the definitive monograph on a true master of modern photography.

Table of Contents

Preface by Colette Alvarez Urbajtel · The pictures · The Essays

About this title

Review:

'This is really an example of the highest function of the best monographs: they make you feel like you really understand a photographer's work' --The Online Photographer

'I urge you to buy this book ... It has been years since a comprehensive retrospective on Alvarez Bravo's photography has been published, and this is one of the best I have seen'
--Flip

'Simple and beautiful'
--The Times

Synopsis:

This major retrospective documents and celebrates the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the most significant force in Mexican photography and one of the foremost practitioners of visual arts in the 20th century. Over 360 sumptuous tritone photographs, arranged in broadly chronological order, mark Alvarez Bravos remarkable 80-year career. Strikingly poetic and richly resonant, the collection includes iconic images as well as undiscovered masterpieces, with over a dozen previously unpublished photographs. Complete with a chronology incorporating exhibition history, a bibliography and a preface by Alvarez Bravos widow Colette Alvarez Urbajtel, this is the definitive monograph of a true master of modern photography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0500543631
• ISBN 13: 9780500543634
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336