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[ Artwork description: A photograph in black and white. A nude person stands outside behind a sheet that is hung on a clothesline. The person's upper body is covered by the sheet and stands with their left hand on their hip and their right hand on their groin. The person stands in front of a stone wall on grass. ]

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Tentaciones en casa de Antonio (Temptations at Antonio's House) , 1970

Artwork Type: Photographs
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm)
Accession #: 19800724J
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , gift of Ronald Lesser
Related Exhibition:
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
Copyright: © Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Object Label:
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002, Mexican) was one of the most renowned Mexican artists of the twentieth century. His work not only became a significant part of but also expanded the canon of black-and-white photography. His oeuvre shares the visual vocabulary of the North American photographers included in Affinities and Outliers such as Edward Steichen and Elliott Erwitt. He was particularly influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico, but remained open to artistic influences from outside his country. Working alongside artists such as Frida Kahlo and José Clemente Orozco, Bravo’s portraiture and landscapes draw from pictorial, surreal, and documentary photography. Encompassing a wide breadth of subject matter, the artist’s series of fifteen black- and-white works exemplify Bravo’s ability to transcend culture, time, and place.
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections

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