Fotografias: Tercera Exposición de la Sociedad de Arte Moderno, Mexico, julio de 1945
- Mexico City: Sociedad de Arte Moderno, 1945
Mexico City: Sociedad de Arte Moderno, 1945. Printed wrappers with light wear along edges and lightly age-toned, with slight bump to top of text-block; thus close to near fine. Housed in black cloth clamshell case with lettering piece to spine.. First Edition. Quarto. Published on the occasion of Álvarez Bravo's influential 1945 exhibition, which explored the quality of "Mexicanidad" and helped set the agenda for a generation of Latin American photography. (Parr / Badger, v2). Contents: 93, [3] pages, featuring 30 black-and-white plates captioned to opposing pages. Includes a series of critical texts on the esteemed photographer, from the likes of Diego Rivera and Gabriel Figueroa, along with an artist statement, biographical text, a portrait of Álvarez Bravo by his wife Doris Heyden, a timeline of the history of photography, and a descriptive catalogue of the 109 photographs on display in the exhibition. Text in Spanish.
Details
Title
Fotografias: Tercera Exposición de la Sociedad de Arte Moderno, Mexico, julio de 1945
Author
ÁLVAREZ BRAVO, Manuel and Diego Rivera
Condition
Near Fine
Publisher
Mexico City: Sociedad de Arte Moderno
Date
1945