Un poco alegre y graciosa (Somewhat Gay and Graceful)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1942
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 6 15/16 × 9 5/8" (17.7 × 24.5 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Artist
Photography
Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican photographer whose black-and-white images merged surrealist formal strategies with documentary observation of Mexican landscape, architecture, and daily life. Working primarily from the 1930s onward, he developed a distinctly poetic approach to the photograph, favoring oblique angles, shadow play, and unexpected juxtapositions that rendered ordinary scenes dreamlike without abandoning their material specificity. His work circulated internationally and influenced several generations of photographers engaged with the relationship between abstraction and representation.
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Record
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- Manuel Álvarez Bravo
- Year
- 1942
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 6 15/16 × 9 5/8" (17.7 × 24.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1942-M049793
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified