Manuel Álvarez Bravo
La Hija de los Danzantes

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Artist Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902–2002)Mexican, 1902–2002

CultureMexican

Titles

La Hija de los Danzantes
The Daughter of the Dancers

Datec. 1933, printed c. 1980

Place depictedMexico

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 7/8 × 6 15/16 in. (25.1 × 17.6 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins

Object number2012.620

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionManuel Álvarez Bravo is the most internationally recognized photographer who worked in Mexico in the 20th century. He was equally treasured as a mentor to other photographers and for his campaigns to preserve and promote Mexican photography. From the influence of European Surrealists came the dreamlike quality in many of his photographs. His preferred subjects, like this young woman dressed in a simple white lace skirt, sombrero, and shiny shawl, with unexpectedly bare feet, preserve a poetic, rural Mexico that was disappearing in modernity. The great muralist Diego Rivera wrote that poetry and irony emanate from “the photographs of Manual Álvarez Bravo, like those particles suspended in the air which render visible a ray of light as it penetrates a dark room.”
ProvenanceThe artist, Mexico City; purchased by Michael and Michele Marvins, Houston, c. 1980; given to MFAH, 2012.
Exhibition History“A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 4–July 5, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso lower right in pencil: M. Alvarez Bravo. / Mexico.

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