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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

The Good Reputation Sleeping (La Buena Fama Durmiendo), 1938

Description

Maker

  • Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 1902-2002, Mexican

Title

The Good Reputation Sleeping (La Buena Fama Durmiendo)

Year

1938

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silver print,
  • silver gelatin print

Dimensions

Plate: 18.9 x 24.6 cm (7 7/16 x 9 11/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in pencil on verso:M. Alvarez Bravo Mexico

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

79.029

Projects & Publications

Publications

Artistic Expressions of the Human Spirit

Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art. November 21, 1997 - April 26,

The First America

Selections From the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses

November 12, 2010 - June 6, 2011

In this Surrealist-inspired photograph, Manuel Alvarez Bravo presents a nude model lying in direct sunlight, swathed in bandages and surrounded by star cacti. Her bandages, according to the artist, are meant to evoke an injured dancer preparing for rehearsal. The woman pictured here is Alicia, a figure model at the Academy of San Carlos, Mexico’s oldest art school, where Alvarez Bravo taught during the late 1930s. This dream-like image was originally commissioned by André Breton, a leader of the Paris-based Surrealist movement, as a cover photograph for the catalogue of an upcoming International Surrealist Exhibition in Mexico City. However, censors ultimately forbid the photo from being printed on the catalog cover because of its graphic display of nudity.

Artistic Expressions of the Human Spirit

November 21, 1997 - April 26, 1998

Migrations

February 21 - April 26, 1992

Del Nuevo Mundo

June 17 - September 4, 1988

Use

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