Los Perros Durmiendo Ladran (Sleeping Dogs Bark)
1966, printed 1977
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.86 × 19.05 cm (9 × 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Raymond W. Merritt)
Accession Number
2016.22.52
About the Artist
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) was one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century and the undisputed master of Mexican modernist photography. Born in Mexico City into a family with artistic connections, he was largely self-taught as a photographer, beginning to work seriously with the camera in the 1920s. His development was shaped by encounters with figures at the center of Mexico's...