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BRAVO, MANUEL ALVAREZ (1902-2002)
“El Soñador” [The Dreamer]. Silver print, 7
1
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8
x9
1
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4
inches (18.1x23.5 cm.), with Bravo’s signature
and “México,” in pencil, on verso. 1931; printed circa 1980
[4,000/6,000]
Though not an official member of the Surrealist Movement, Bravo was a compatriot of Breton and the
Surrealists in Mexico City. On this photograph, Bravo mused:“There at number 20 Calle de Guatemala,
I saw many things that marked me forever. I walked a lot through the adjoining streets; I especially liked
to watch the customs porters in SantiagoTlatelolco station, who after work would fall asleep exhausted on
the sidewalk. I felt great compassion for them.— I am happy to have lived in those streets.There everything
was food for my camera, everything had an inherent social content; in life everything has social content.”
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