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Manuel Alvarez Bravo, “El Sueno (The Dream),”  1934.

 

 

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NEW YORK CITY — “El Maestro de Modernismo: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo” will be on view January 1–March 1 at Throckmorton Fine Art.

In the gallery’s first exhibition of the new year, “El Maestro de Modernismo: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo,” featuring one of Latin America’s most influential photographers of the Twentieth Century, will include many of the key images he captured in a career that spanned 80 years.

Bravo (1902–2002) began his career as a young photographers in the 1920s in post-revolutionary Mexico. With the emergence of Mexico City as an international center, artists and intellectuals, celebrated the avant-garde 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.

Throckmorton Fine Art is at 145 East 57th Street, Third Floor. For more information, www.throckmorton-nyc.com or 212-223-1059.