Nudes: the Blue House. the Photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo by: Ariadne Kimberly Huque and Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Hardcover. 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. Born in 1902, Manuel Alvarez Bravo is Mexico's most celebrated photographer. His far-reaching body of work includes many of the 20th century's most recognizable and iconic images. Collected here is a seductive, timeless, and entrancing sampling of the maestro's nudes, images taken in 1939 and as recently as the 1990s. Sensitively edited and sequenced by Ariadne Kimberly Huque, and with an impassioned and poetic introduction by Carlos Fuentes, this delicate, elegant volume beautifully reproduces some of Bravo's most favorite work, and provides an intimate window through which to view the career of one of the camera's true masters.