Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) was a Mexican photographer whose career spanned much of the twentieth century. Working in Mexico City, he photographed streets, workers, bodies, religious imagery and everyday objects, combining documentary observation with surreal and symbolic elements. Associated with artists including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and André Breton, he developed a distinctly Mexican photographic modernism. Darwin selects Álvarez Bravo for images where ordinary life, death, desire and political history coexist without explanation.
