“I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance…. I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually inspiration comes. Instinct is the same as inspiration and eventually it comes”
~ Manuel Álvarez Bravo
(1902-2002)
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Don Manuel led a long and productive life. He was born in Mexico City and left school at 13 years old to help support his family and his photography was self taught. His career spanned from the late 1920s to the 1990s. His hallmark as a photographer was to capture images of the ordinary and make them extraordinary. His images are often enigmatic and ripe with symbol and metaphor and speak to his love of life and the beauty and poetry and mystery of his native Mexico.
As he wisely once said.. “You bring your accumulated life to the moment that something sparks you to make an image. Everything influences you, and it’s all good”.
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