Lola Alvarez Bravo

Author:   Lola Alvarez Bravo ,  Elizabeth Ferrer ,  Lola Alvarez Bravo
Publisher:   Aperture
ISBN:  

9781931788946


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   25 September 2006
Format:   Hardback
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This first comprehensive monograph in English for Mexico's first major female photographer tracks a career equally exceptional for its remarkable range and for its compelling quality. Lola Alvarez Bravo explored her calling through photojournalism, commercial work and professional portrait-making, even as she was creating intensely personal images of people, places and things throughout her native Mexico. In addition, she played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene as an inspiring teacher, a friend of innumerable artists (many of whom she photographed), and as the owner of a prestigious gallery that presented the first solo show by her friend Frida Kahlo, the subject of some of Alvarez Bravo's most powerful portraits. Although some of her photographs reflect the influence of her husband, Manuel Alvarez Bravo-they shared the same cameras and often the same roll of film-Lola had achieved her own aesthetic by the 1940s and 50s, concentrating on two particularly vivid bodies of work, portraiture and street photography. In these two disciplines she found a way to reveal a lyricism in the world around her, producing quiet reveries on life lived in the moment. This first English-language book to encompass the full range of her work includes previously unpublished images and several of her little-known photomontages.

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Author:   Lola Alvarez Bravo ,  Elizabeth Ferrer ,  Lola Alvarez Bravo
Publisher:   Aperture
Imprint:   Aperture
Dimensions:   Width: 24.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:  

9781931788946


ISBN 10:   1931788944
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   25 September 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Lola Álvarez Bravo lived and worked in Mexico City. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where her archive is maintained. Her work is represented by Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, and Galería Juan Martín, Mexico City. Lola Álvarez Bravo lived and worked in Mexico City. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where her archive is maintained. Her work is represented by Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, and Galería Juan Martín, Mexico City.

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