Recognized as one of the all-time greatest masters of photography and the most significant artist in Mexico's modern era, Manuel Alvarez Bravo forged a style all his own. In the process he elevated many of his images into an iconic status that perfectly captured the melding of everyday existence in urban and rural Mexico. His work was a natural extension of the art of 'seeing', and the medium of photographic reproduction itself. Once asked what he sought before taking a photograph, he said simply: "I don't look for anything. I discover things." Over the years, he told students: "Shoot what you see, not what you think. A photographer's philosophy should be not to have one."

Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902 - 2002)
Fruta Prohibida
Silver Gelatin Print Photograph
Negative Date: 1976
Print Date: circa 1980s
8x10"
Unmounted, full signature in pencil on verso.
SOLD

Manuel Alvarez Bravo died on October 19, 2002

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