Manuel Alvarez Bravo Manuel Alvarez Bravo was born on February 4, 1902 in Mexico City. He was the son and grandson of photographer’s ands painters. When Bravo was just an adolescent the Mexican Revolution had begun in 1910 and lasted through 1920. Bravo can remember running over the hills in Mexico to find a dead soldier just lying their abandoned. During the Revolution nearly one million Mexicans had died due to starvation and fighting between rebels struggling for …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

…showed last 75 words of 963 total…His pictures have a way of drawing you in making you fell as though you are there. The name that he gives his pictures really make you think. I think that if he did not name his pictures they would not be as interesting as they are. Bravo is one of the most famous Mexican photographers of his time. His photographs have been described as “realities in rotation, momentary fixates” on the brink of disappearing !