Manuel Álvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries: Photographs from the Collections of the Harry Ransom Center and the Blanton Museum of Art

In a special collaboration, the Harry Ransom Center and the Blanton Museum of Art present Manuel Álvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries: Photographs from the Collections of the Harry Ransom Center and The Blanton Museum of Art. Organized by The Blanton as part of The University of Texas at Austin’s celebration of the Mexican Bicentennial, the exhibition will feature 45 iconic images by “the father of Mexican photography,” drawn from the Harry Ransom Center and The Blanton—UT’s two primary collections. The show will also include excellent examples of work by Álvarez Bravo’s contemporaries including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston. Ursula Davila-Villa, The Blanton’s associate curator of Latin American art remarks, “Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a major figure during Mexico’s modernist period, a moment of great transformation. His work offers a unique perspective of Mexico from that of his contemporaries such as Rivera and Orozco, with an artistic sensibility that brings together local a