MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO

EL MAESTRO DE MODERNISMO


JANUARY 10 - MARCH 1, 2008

THROCKMORTON FINE ART is pleased to announce our first exhibition for the new year, El Maestro de Modernismo: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Considered to be one of Latin America’s greatest and most influential photographers of the twentieth century, this exhibition will feature many of the extraordinary images he captured in a career that spanned eighty years.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002)
He began his career as a young photographer in the 1920’s in post-revolutionary Mexico. With the emergence of Mexico City as an international center, artists and intellectuals, celebrated the avantgarde and their indigenous past. Through association with and recognition by such luminaries as Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Manuel was able to work within a wide range of styles and subject matter including: formalist abstraction, architecture, interiors, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. Bravo, influenced by the indigenous culture of Mexico, also remained open to the artistic influences outside his native country. His ability to mix these elements into his own invention, created photographs that transcended culture, time, and place. His work ahead of his time evokes the myths of twentieth century Mexico from revolutionary politics to surrealist depictions of everyday objects. His photographs have been exhibited all over the world and included in the collections of major world museums.