"Great black and white photographers, PART 2."

Manuel Alvarez Bravo,

He was born on February 4, 1902 , in Mexico City , and died on October 19, 2002. He studied art at the Academy of San Carlos , His hallmark as a photographer was to capture images of the ordinary but in ironic or surrealistic ways , based on European influences, but then he got in to Mexican muralism, movement and the general cultural and political push at the time to redefine Mexican identity. 

Artistry,

He used large cameras which produced more detail in the finished print. However, he was more concerned with the images he photographed than the technical quality of his prints. The compositions were generally excellent and the images poetic, He gave titles to his photographs in order to distinguish them. The titles of his photographs often are based on Mexican myth and culture.