Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Paràbola òptica

Paràbola òptica

© The Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photography Archive

Paràbola òptica
Paràbola òptica
CultureMexican
Titles
  • Paràbola òptica
  • Optical Parable
  • from the portfolio Fifteen Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 1974
Date1931, printed 1974
Place depictedMexico
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/4 × 7 1/16 in. (23.5 × 17.9 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 7 1/16 in. (23.5 × 17.9 cm)
Mount: 19 11/16 × 14 3/4 in. (50 × 37.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Lynch Foundation
Object number87.123.1
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Lunn Ltd., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1987.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited Photographic Masterworks: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Glassell School January 23 - March 4, 1990
Exhibited in "The Eyes Have It", December 12, 1994 through February 26, 1995

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom left below image on mount in pencil " 44/75 "
bottom right below image on mount in pencil " M. Alvarez Bravo "

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

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Dia de Todos los Muertos
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1933, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.8
cropped recto of sheet
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1949, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.7
cropped recto of sheet
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1965, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.2
cropped recto of sheet
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1976, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.1
cropped recto of sheet
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
c. 1933, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.4
Ventana a los Magueyes
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1976, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.3
cropped recto of sheet
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1958, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.6
La Visita
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1935 or 1945, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.5
Angel del Temblor
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1957, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.9
cropped recto of sheet
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1942, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.11
cropped recto of sheet
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1970, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.10
cropped recto of sheet
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1972, printed 1979
Gelatin silver print
82.551.13