Invite to the opening of the exhibi “Manuel Álvarez Bravo. The Decisive Years”
Manuel Álvarez Bravo is recognized as one of the leading figures of modern photography in Mexico. His career spanned from the 1920s to 2001; however, specialists agree that the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s were decisive decades in the development of his distinctive aesthetic and narrative language.
“The Decisive Years” is an exhibition featuring sixty-eight photographs from the period in which the “poet of the lens” consolidated his singular style. Influenced by the avant-garde movements, his close ties to modern Mexican art (particularly through muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco) and his engagement with modern photography through figures such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston, and Tina Modotti, Manuel Álvarez Bravo transformed everyday scenes, portraits, landscapes, and popular festivities into visual testimonies that continue to shape the collective imagination of post-revolutionary Mexico.
The exhibition was organized by the Guanajuato State Secretariat of Culture in collaboration with the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Archive, and revisits the curatorial framework developed by José Antonio Rodríguez, first presented in 1992.
The exhibition will be on view through August 30, 2026, in the Frida Kahlo Gallery at the Museo Casa Diego Rivera.
Gallery view of the exhibition “Manuel Álvarez Bravo. The Decisive Years”
Gallery view of the exhibition “Manuel Álvarez Bravo. The Decisive Years”
Gallery view of the exhibition “Manuel Álvarez Bravo. The Decisive Years”
Gallery view of the exhibition “Manuel Álvarez Bravo. The Decisive Years”
Gallery view of the exhibition “Manuel Álvarez Bravo. The Decisive Years”