Self-portrait, Oaxaca
Original Language TitleAutoretrato, Oaxaca
Artist
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
(Mexican, 1902 - 2002)
Date1996
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 7/16 × 9 7/16 inches (16.31 × 23.93 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 10 inches (20.32 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 10 inches (20.32 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
Object number2016.74.2
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "M Alvarez Bravo / Mexico"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "6 / 8 / 1x3 / 1:36";
On sheet verso, upper left corner, in pencil: "1996 E76".
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DescriptionImage of a man wearing glasses holding a camera up to take a photograph of a dry landscape with a hill in the background a small figure center left. The man taking the photograph is seen through the vehicle's side mirror.Gallery LabelManuel Álvarez Bravo took this self-portrait at the age of 94 as he drove through the hills of Oaxaca, Mexico. The unusual composition divides the picture’s emphasis between his face and the surrounding landscape. Álvarez Bravo draws a connection between himself as an artist and rural Oaxaca, an area he photographed many times throughout his career. Though Álvarez Bravo rarely took self-portraits as a young man, he made this image just a few years before he passed away, a literal and metaphoric self-reflection near the end of his life.
WIth Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauer, Newbury Park, CA by 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Colette Urbajtel/Asociación Manuel Álvarez Bravo
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