Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

90 c MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (1902-2002) Portfolio entitled Fifteen Photographs. Edited by Lee Friedlander. Introductory essay by André Breton. Complete with numerous highlights from Bravo’s extraordinary career. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1 / 2 x9 1 / 2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, one 11 1 / 4 x14 1 / 4 inches (28.6x36.2 cm.), the mounts 14 3 / 4 x19 3 / 4 inches (37.5x50.2 cm.), each with Bravo’s signature and the edition notation 21/75, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio-sized silver- stamped black leather clamshell box with silver pastedowns; with the colophon; contents loose as issued. New York: The Double Elephant Press, 1929-72; printed 1974   [30,000/45,000] Parabola Optica , 1931 * El Sistema Nervioso del Gran Simpatico , 1929 * La Buena Fama Durmiendo , 1938 * El Eclipse , 1933 * El Ensueño , 1931 * Un Poco Alegre y Graciosa , 1942 * Sed Publica , 1934 * La Quema , 1957 * La de las Bellas Artes , 1931 * Trampa Puesta , 1934 * Los Agachados , 1934 * Barda de Panteon , 1967 * Obrero en Huelga, Asesinado , 1934 * Tumba Reciente , 1933 * Paisaje Inventado , 1972.