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Materials:

gelatin silver print

Measurements:

7.40 in. (18.80 cm.) (height) by 9.61 in. (24.40 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and annotated 'Mexico' in pencil on the mount, dedicated in Spanish, 'For Gabriel Figueroa, With admiration, respect, and fondness for your great artistic and revolutionary work in Mexican cinema, Your friend and companion' (translated from the Spanish), in ink on the reverse

Condition:

mounted

Literature:

Other prints of this image: Fred R. Parker, Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Pasadena Art Museum, 1971), p. 30. Jane Livingston, M Álvarez Bravo (Washington, D. C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1978), pl. 42. Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo (The Museum of Modern Art, 1997), p. 78. Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Albuquerque, 1990), pl. 11. Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Cien Años, Cien Días (Mexico, 2001), pl. 33. Aperture Masters of Photography: Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Aperture, 1987), p. 15. In Focus: Manuel Álvarez Bravo (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), pl. 18. Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson & Walker Evans: Documentary & Anti-Graphic: Photographs (Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne, 2004), p. 79. Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photopoetry (San Francisco, 2008), p. 119.

Provenance:

Gift of the photographer to the Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. By descent to the present owner.