In Focus: Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

"The career of Manuel Alvarez Bravo (b. 1902) spans many decades and reflects numerous changes in artistic fashion. A self-taught photographer, he purchased his first camera at the age of twenty, and around 1925 he won first prize in a photographic competition in Oaxaca. Though his work went unrecognized in mainstream art circles for years, Alvarez Bravo is now considered by many to be one of Mexico's great artists."-the publisher. This book also includes an edited transcript of a colloquium on Bravo's career with David Featherstone, Colette Alvarez Urbajtel, Pablo Monasterio, Charles Merewether, Cristina Cuevas-Wolf, Weston Naef, and Susan Kismaric.