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Siesta in the Grass, from portfolio Survey 1986 / Alvarez Bravo, Boubat, Clark, Clergue, Gibson, Lennard, Porter
1979; portfolio 198620th century
6 3/4 in. x 9 1/8 in. (17.15 cm x 23.18 cm)
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexican, (1902–2002)
Object Type:
Photographs
Creation Place:
North America, Mexico
Medium and Support:
palladium print on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Arthur D. Kowaloff, class of 1968
Accession Number:
1997.009.01
This image relates to 1939 photo the good reputation sleeping. 1938 Andre Breton commissioned Bravo to create a cover image for a catalogue of a Surrealist exhibition in Mexico. Model Alicia posed on arts academy roof, with bandages borrowed from a doc. Proverb: Fashion a good reputation then lie down to sleep
A central figure to Mexico's cultural reinvention during the early decades of this century - and now the unquestionable modern
master that he is today - Manuel Alvarez Bravo has continued to forge images that are mindful of precise composition and
methaphor, with a formal range that is equally rich in mood and thematic scope. Alvarez Bravo's lyric environments have
repeatedly explored the unexpected combination of vernacular everyday shapes as they often emerge in Mexico. Images that are
classic modernist challenge to notions regarding the casual encounter of visual elements, they are also formal epiphanies that
address the cityscape of Mexico and its myriad fleeting instants. Alvarez Bravo's images belong to a meaningful world where
female nudes and mannequins speak jointly about the conflicting forms and significance of the represented body, or where a
storefront display is suddenly transformed into a 'perversity of reflections'.
Born in 1902, his career began in the thriving artistic mileu of post revolutionary Mexico in the company of artists like Diego Rivera, JosT Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros along with expatriate photographers working in Mexico at the time: Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti.
A central figure to Mexico's cultural reinvention during the early decades of this century - and now the unquestionable modern
master that he is today - Manuel Alvarez Bravo has continued to forge images that are mindful of precise composition and
methaphor, with a formal range that is equally rich in mood and thematic scope. Alvarez Bravo's lyric environments have
repeatedly explored the unexpected combination of vernacular everyday shapes as they often emerge in Mexico. Images that are
classic modernist challenge to notions regarding the casual encounter of visual elements, they are also formal epiphanies that
address the cityscape of Mexico and its myriad fleeting instants. Alvarez Bravo's images belong to a meaningful world where
female nudes and mannequins speak jointly about the conflicting forms and significance of the represented body, or where a
storefront display is suddenly transformed into a 'perversity of reflections'.
Born in 1902, his career began in the thriving artistic mileu of post revolutionary Mexico in the company of artists like Diego Rivera, JosT Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros along with expatriate photographers working in Mexico at the time: Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti.
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20th Century,
21st Century,
Contemporary*,
Latin American*,
Mexican*,
palladium prints*,
palladium process*,
paper (fiber product)*,
photographic paper*,
photographs*
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
- Latin American - In the strictest sense, refers to the cultures of the countries of South America, North America, Central America, and the Caribbean that were originally colonized by Spain. It may also refer more broadly to all the cultures of this region, including those that were originally colonized by the French or Portuguese.
- Mexican - Of or belonging to the nation of Mexico or its people.
- palladium prints - Photographic prints made by the palladium process.
- palladium process - An iron process for making photographic prints in which palladium is reduced from a salt to form the image. Similar to the platinum process.
- paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
- photographic paper - Paper used for making photographic prints that consists of a base material with a white or near-white surface that is coated with one or more emulsion layers. It is typically a high grade of paper traditionally made from 100% cotton or linen rags, because lignin and other residues in other paper would react with the photosensitive salts and destroy the image. Photographic paper is strong, uniform, and dimensionally stable when wet and dry. For increased wet-strength, the papers are sized with animal glue, starch, stearic acid, or synthetic resins, such as melamine (used since 1948). One or more fillers, such as barium sulfate, titanium dioxide, clay, starch, or polyacrylamide, are also added for opacity, color, and strength. The papers were calendered to produce a smooth, nonporous surface. Since the late 1960s, most color photographic papers have been made from cellulose fibers coated on both sides with polyethylene.
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photographs
- Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. It does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "
" are more appropriate. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent.
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Dimensions
- image Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (171 x 232 mm)