Paisaje de Siembras (Growing Landscape)
1972-1974, printed 1977
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 18 × 24.13 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Raymond W. Merritt)
Accession Number
2016.22.45
Art Historical Context
Manuel Álvarez Bravo's *Paisaje de SiembrasGrowing Landscape)*, created between 1972 and 1974 and printed in 7 as a gelatin silver print, the poetic essence of rural Mexico in miniature scale (image: 18 × 24.13 cm). Álvarez Bravo, a pioneering Mexican photographer (1902–2002), sharp realism with surrealist undertones, influenced by his nation's post-Revolutionary cultural renaissance. His work often transformed everyday scenes—here, a "growing landscape" evoking sown fields and burgeoning life—into timeless symbols of fertility and endurance, echoing Mexico's agrarian roots. The gelatin silve...
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...