Lola Alvarez Bravo: In Her Own Light (The Archive, 31) [Paperback]

Olivier Debroise (Author)

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The fifty-year photographic career of Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907-1993) begins a powerful lineage of women photographers in twentieth-century Mexico. Lola Alvarez Bravo: In Her Own Light examines the influence and innovation that this photographer brought to photography in her own country. An essay by Olivier Debroise, historian and personal friend of Lola Alvarez Bravo, relates her work to that of other photographers and friends such as her husband Manuel Alvares Bravo, Edward Weston, and Tina Modotti. Lola Alvarez Bravo's direct uncompromising, and impassioned studies of her compatriots and her country place her among the renowned photographic interpreters of Mexico in the modern period. This bilingual publication is devoted to her creative work and includes a selection of the photographs Lola Alvarez Bravo cherished as her own art. These were chosen from the one hundred prints in the Center for Creative Photography's Lola Alvarez Bravo Collection. -- Midwest Book Review

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• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Center for Creative Photography (August 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938262246
• ISBN-13: 978-0938262244
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,548,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Lola Alvarez Bravo: In Her Own Light (The Archive, 31) (Paperback)

If the visual arts of Mexico stimulate you than you will find these photographs to be like taking a journey through time and space across the land. Lola Alvarez Bravo, the wife of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, arguably Mexico's finest photographer, was a magnificent photographer in her own right. She carved the way through the use of her camera lense for women of future generations to capture the images of their times. This book features some of her own personal favorites by other masters of black and white imagery as well as the selected 36 plates. The everyday existence of people comes to life from it's mundane existence to reveal the power and beauty in the ordinary. The result is a set of extrordinary photographs that includes pensive imagery of Frida Kahlo, enchanting wonderment expressed by Carlos Pellier, the timeless ans ageless beauty of Marion Greenwood, the artistic relections of Diego Rivera and countless aspects and details of unknown people with dramatic results. The accompanying bilingual text is insightful reflections on the art of Lola Alvarez Bravo. The book also includes a chronology of events in her life and a selected bibliography for future reference. The shadows of darkness and light intersect in her photographs to reveal her as a true visual art genius, a woman in a mans world well ahead of her time who captured the moment and siezed the time. Recommended for people interested in photography, Mexico and a person who was a photojournalist, portraitist and political photographer of exceptional talent who documanted the events and people of her times for future generations.