Call Number:

PH-00333

Collection Name:

Photographs (1977 portfolio)

Creator:

No. of Items:

15 items in portfolio

Span Dates:

1920s-1977, printed 1977

Description:

Published portfolio by Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002) titled Photographs (Geneva, Switzerland: Acorn Editions, 1977). The portfolio consists of a four-page colophon and 15 matted photographs in contained within a gray clamshell box with metal latches (46.3 x 38.5 x 5.8 cm). From the colophon: "These photographs were printed by Manuel Alvarez Bravo in Mexico City, Mexico in 1977. The edition consists of one hundred portfolios of fifteen photographs, each signed by the artist and numbered from 1 to 100.". The Ransom Center's copy is number 40. The colophon provides the Spanish and English titles, as well as the date of the negative, for each print. Item-level information follows.

980:0012:0001 -- Arena y Pinitos / Sand and Small Pines, 1920s, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 16.8 x 24 cm (image); 20.2 x 25.4 cm (sheet); 35.5 x 43.2 cm (mat);
980:0012:0002 -- Paisaje de Siembras / Growing Landscape, 1972-1974, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 18 x 24.1 cm (image); 20.1 x 25.4 cm (sheet); 35.5 x 43.2 cm (mat);
980:0012:0003 -- Votos / Votive Offering, 1969, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 18.8 x 24.3 cm (image); 20.1 x 25.4 cm (sheet); 35.5 x 43.2 cm (mat);
980:0012:0004 -- Luz Restirada / Lengthened Light, 1944, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 24.1 x 17.5 cm (image); 25.4 x 20.2 cm (sheet); 43.2 x 35.5 cm (mat);
980:0012:0005 -- Dos Mujeres y la Gran Cortina con Sombras / Two Women, a Large Blind, and Shadows, photographed and printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 18.4 x 24.2 cm (image); 20.2 x 25.5 cm (sheet); 35.5 x 43.2 cm (mat);
980:0012:0006 -- Acto Primero / First Act, 1975, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 17.9 x 24 cm (image); 20.2 x 25.4 cm (sheet); 35.5 x 43.2 cm (mat);
980:0012:0007 -- Caja de Visiones / Box of Visions, 1930s, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 19 x 23.5 cm (image); 20.2 x 25.4 cm (sheet); 35.5 x 43.2 cm (mat);
980:0012:0008 -- Señor de Papantla / The Man from Papantla, 1934-1935, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 23.6 x 18.3 cm (image); 25.5 x 20.2 cm (sheet); 43.2 x 35.5 cm (mat);
980:0012:0009 -- Los Perros durmiendo ladran / Sleeping Dogs Bark, 1966, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 23 x 19.1 cm (image); 25.2 x 20.2 cm (sheet); 43.2 x 35.5 cm (mat);
980:0012:0010 -- Dos Pares de Piernas / Two Pairs of Legs, 1928-1929, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 23.3 x 18.3 cm (image); 25.4 x 20.2 cm (sheet); 43.2 x 35.5 cm (mat);
980:0012:0011 -- "...Un Pez que llaman Sierra" / "...A Fish Called Saw", 1942, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 24 x 17.4 cm (image); 25.2 x 20.2 cm (sheet); 43.2 x 35.5 cm (mat);
980:0012:0012 -- Ya Mero / Almost, 1968, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 18.7 x 24 cm (image); 20.2 x 25.4 cm (sheet); 35.5 x 43.2 cm (mat);
980:0012:0013 -- Gorrión, Claro / Skylight, 1938-1940, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 18.2 x 24.1 cm (image); 20.2 x 25.4 cm (sheet); 35.5 x 43.2 cm (mat);
980:0012:0014 -- Umbral / Threshold, 1947, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 24.2 x 19.4 cm (image); 25.3 x 20.2 cm (sheet); 43.2 x 35.5 cm (mat);
980:0012:0015 -- Retrato de lo Eterno / Woman Combing Her Hair, 1932-1933, printed 1977. Gelatin silver print, 23.8 x 18.8 cm (image); 25.2 x 20.2 cm (sheet); 43.2 x 35.5 cm (mat).

Accession No(s):

980:0012:0001-0011, 0013-0015 -- Gift, 1980 (G 747); 980:0012:0001-0015; 980:0012:0012 -- Gift, 1980 (G 748); Gifts, 1980 (G 747 and G 748)

Location(s):

f TR 654 A594 1977 HRC-P (980:0012:0001-0015)
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See Also:

Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1979 portfolio): Additional photographs by Álvarez Bravo are located in the 1979 portfolio Manuel Álvarez Bravo (PH-00832).