Mexican photographer. He studied painting and music at the Academia Nacional
de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in 1918. In 1922, after training as an office
worker, he began to take an interest in photography, and in 1923 he met Hugo
Brehme shortly before buying his first camera. In 1929, through his
friendship with Tina Modotti, he got to know Diego Rivera. In 1930, when
Modotti left Mexico, he provided illustrations for Francis Toor’s book
Mexican Folkways. From 1930 to 1931 he was cameraman for Eisenstein’s
film Viva Mexico. Subsequently he met Paul Strand and Cartier-Bresson
and became friendly with Mexico’s leading painters and writers. In 1938 he
met André Breton, who was visiting Mexico and who was deeply impressed by
the mysterious and suggestive nature of his photographs. Breton was keen to
enlist him for the Surrealist cause and published some of his photographs in
Minotaure.
Bravo
Manuel Alvarez
1930 Frida Kahlo
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