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Mexican Revelations: The Art of Manuel Alvarez Bravo |
| Section: THE ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Author: Judith Bell |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 1,819 Words, 11,249 Characters |
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"Memory is hunger," wrote Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast, and perhaps nowhere as in the work of Mexico's celebrated photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo is this poignant truth more palpable. Bravo's memories are not just his own but those of Mexico, of a country shaped by the uneasy melding of pre-Cortezian and European cultures, two forces that shift and change like the plates beneath the land of Mexico itself. Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Alvarez Bravo the touring retrospective organized by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, and made possible by a grant from American Express documents a career spanning over six decades and two very different sources of influence: Western/Christian and the thought and mythology of ancient Mexican cultures.
Meaning-Laden Images
Bra...
. . .
...uring than the empty and broken effigy of the bull.
The Omnipresent Invisible
"The invisible is always contained and present in a work of art which recreates it," the artist has said. "If the invisible cannot be seen in it, then the work of art does not exist." Bravo's photographs are indeed a challenge to see beyond the visible, beyond ourselves, to some heightened state of grace.
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