Bravo, Manuel Alvarez – Paz, Instante y revelacion 1982 FIRST ED. SIGNED MEXICO

Bravo – Paz, Octavio. Instante y revelación. (Fotografias) Manuel Alvarez Bravo . Editado por Arturo Muñoz (para el Fondo Nacional para Actividades Sociales). México, Circulo Editorial 1982. 4° (31 x 25 cm.). [3] Bl., XIII S., [1] Bl., ca. 65 Duotone-Tafeln, [4] Bl. und 2 Bl. (english translation by Eliot Weinberger ). Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgepr. Rücken- und Deckeltitel und Orig.-Schutzumschlag.

Erste Ausgabe. – Eines von 2200 Exemplaren; von M. A. Bravo signiert. – „A fine selection of photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Published in Mexico in 1982, this volume combines Bravo’s work with the untranslated poetry of Octavo Paz, one of Mexico’s foremost writers. The introduction, also by Paz, has been translated into English“ (Circulo Editorial). – Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002) „voraciously adapted every European modernist mode of photography for his own use, from New Vision formalism to Surrealism, suffusing it with his own personal visual signature. More importantly and this made him one of the twentieth century’s greatest photographers – that signature was less or more accurately mexicanidad (Mexicanness) – what it means physically, historically, psychologically and spiritually to be Mexican“ (Parr/Badger II, 98 zu Fotografias, Mexico 1945). – Sehr schönes sauberes Exemplar.