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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

The poetry of the mundane

by Laura Bartlett

posted 9/1/2002

"I am content with my country: good, bad, and worse than bad — I am enchanted by my country," Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo has said. His twenty elegiac dreamscapes on display at the U-M Museum of Art radiate a mesmerized affection for everyday Mexican scenes and a patient, razor-sharp skill at composition that coaxes the mundane

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