For today I'm going to talk about Manuel Álvarez Bravo, he is known as one of the fathers of modern photography and the most representative photographer in Latin America.
He was born on february 4th 1902 in the centre of mexican capital, learning by him self, he developed different types of techniques at an early age.
In 1930 begins in documentary photography, working in the magazine "Mexican Folkways".
For this, he works for mural painters such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Also, from 1930-1959 he worked in film, sharing with Sergei Eisenstein on the film: Que viva Mexico! (1930-1932). Likewise, he shared exhibitions with the famous French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Mexico.
In life, he presented more than 150 solo exhibitions and he has participated in over 200 collective exhibitions.
He died on October 19, 2002, a hundred years old.
Here, I leave a sample of his photographs and one link if you wanna see more.
See you!
http://www.exposicionesmapfrearte.com/manuelalvarezbravo/es/
