Fifteen Photographs.
by BRAVO, Manuel Alvarez. (Friedlander, Lee, Ed.)
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About This Item
New York.: Double Elephant Press., 1974.. Loose as issued in original publisher's black morocco clamshell box with embossed title in silver to front cover, cover interior silvered and with title repeated in red.. Folio. (532 x 395 mm).. Leaf with justification with title embossed in silver and printed text in colour with list of photographs, leaf with introduction by André Breton in red (taken from his introduction to the exhibition 'Mexique' in 1939 also with embossed title in silver, leaf with English translation of Breton's text in blue (also with embossed title in silver) and 15 original signed monochrome photographs each mounted to a sheet of Strathmore Artist Bristol; sheet size: 502 x 376 mm; photograph size: 238 x 140 mm or the reverse. A superb example of the Double Elephant Press portfolio of signed photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo.From the edition limited to 75 numbered copies (plus 15 artist's proofs) with each photograph signed and numbered by Bravo in pencil to the support sheet.André Breton's introduction was written originally for the exhibition 'Mexique' in 1939.'Tout le pathétique mexicain est mis par lui à notre portée: où Alvarez Bravo s'est arrêté, où s'il est attardé à fixer une lumière, un signe, un silence, c'est non seulement où bat le coeur du Mexique mais où encore l'artiste a pu pressentir, avec un discernement unique, la valeur pleinement objective de son émotion. Servi dans les grands mouvements de son inspiration par le sens le plus rare de la qualité en même temps que par une technique infaillible, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, avec son 'Ouvrier tué dans une bagarre', s'est élevé à ce que Baudelaire a appelé le style éternel.' (André Breton).The photographs are titled as follows:1 / Parabola Optica;2 / El SIstema Nervioso del Gran Simpatico;3 / La Buena Fama Durmiendo;4 / El Eclipse;5 / El Ensueño;6 / Un Poco Alegre y Graciosa;7 / Sed Publica;8 / La Quema;9 / La de las Bellas Artes;10 / Trampa Puesta;11 / Los Agachados;12 / Barda de Panteon;13 / Obrero En Huelga, Asesinado;14 / Tumba Reciente;15 / Paisaje Inventado.
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- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48175
- Title
- Fifteen Photographs.
- Author
- BRAVO, Manuel Alvarez. (Friedlander, Lee, Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Loose as issued in original publisher's black morocco clamshell box with embossed title in silver to front cover, cover interior
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Double Elephant Press.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 1974.
- Pages
- [18 unnumbered leaves].
- Size
- Folio. (532 x 395 mm).
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- Morocco
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