The Tony Catany Foundation Opens “Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Bodies, Souls, Streets” Exhibition in Mallorca, Spain

Invite to the exhibit “Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Bodies, Souls, Streets”

The Tony Catany Foundation, in collaboration with the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Archive, is honored to present Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Bodies, Souls, Streets at the International Center of Photography. The exhibition brings together more than one hundred photographs spanning the different stages of the Mexican photographer’s career.

Curated by Horacio Fernández, the exhibition is structured around three fundamental themes that shaped the work of the poet of the lens throughout his life: the body, the soul, and the streets.

The body emerges as the central subject of a gaze capable of capturing a moment in time amid the bustle of urban life, as the photographer directs his attention toward the subjects of his portraits, whether near or distant. The soul evokes the immaterial dimension of human beings, expressed through a wide range of emotions and states of being, such as loneliness, sympathy, desire, melancholy, fear, and anguish. The streets of Mexico City, meanwhile, provide his preferred setting: spaces that Álvarez Bravo explored with a singular vision, moving beyond the anecdotal and the caricatural to reveal their many layers of meaning.

Through photography, Álvarez Bravo created a world of his own, where the everyday takes on a symbolic and mysterious quality. To enter this world, all one needs to do is look, as one of his celebrated phrases suggests: “Down here, everything is symbol and mystery.”

The exhibition will be on view from October 10, 2026, to April 30, 2027, at the International Center of Photography, located at Calle del Fotògraf Toni Catany, 2, Llucmajor, Mallorca.