Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photopoetry

Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photopoetry by ALVAREZ URBAJTEL. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780500543634.

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 Bravo’s 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resonant, the collection includes iconic images as well as undiscovered masterpieces, with over a dozen previously unpublished photographs.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 Bravo’s widow Colette Alvarez Urbajtel, this is the definitive monograph of a true master of modern photography. Table of Contents Preface by Colette Alvarez Urbajtel • The pictures • The Essays