With a career that spans nearly eighty years, Manuel Alvarez Bravo (b.1902) has long been recognized as one of the foremost figures in the history of photography and one of the great Mexican artists of the twentieth century.
Alvarez Bravo’s career began in the thriving artistic environment of post-revolutionary Mexico, when Mexico City emerged as an international center for artistic and intellectual exchange. Like his contemporaries Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco, Alvarez Bravo was influenced by the indigenous culture of Mexico throughout his career..