Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Nudes: The Blue House

About this book

Born in 1902 Manuel Alvarez Bravo is Mexicos most celebrated living photographer. His far-reaching body of work includes many of the 20th centurys most recognizable and iconic images. Collected here is a seductive timeless and entrancing sampling of the maestros nudes images taken in 1939 and as recently as the 1990s. Sensitively edited and sequenced by Ariadne Kimberly Huque and with an impassioned and poetic introduction by Carlos Fuentes this delicate elegant volume beautifully reproduces some of Bravos most favorite work and provides an intimate window through which to view the career of one of the cameras true masters.