Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 99 |
| Canada | 11 |
| France | 10 |
| Switzerland | 9 |
| Germany | 9 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., USA |
9 |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
5 |
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Musée de l´Elysée, Switzerland |
4 |
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OMC Gallery For Contemporary Art, USA |
4 |
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Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Canada |
4 |
Biography: 
4.2.1902 Born in Ciudad de México, DIF (MX)
27.12.2002 Died in Coyoacáan (MX)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 184 
until 30.5.
Solo shows 47
2012
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo - Jeu de Paume, Paris |
2011
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| Fotografias de Mexico (1933-1976) - Bates College Museum of Arts, Lewiston, ME |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Mexico - Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
2009
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| Glimpses In Time:2009 Finalists - Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA |
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Fotografías - MALBA Colección Costantini - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires |
2008
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| El Maestro de Modernismo - Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY |
2006
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo - Image Voices - Central European House of Photography, Bratislava |
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo - Caja de visiones / Box of Visions - Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO |
2005
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Voices of Images - Langhans Galerie, Prague |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA |
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| Caja de visiones/Box of Visions - Manuel Álvarez Bravo - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - L´Imagerie, Lannion |
2004
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Galeria Ramis Barquet - Chelsea, NY, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo - Retrospectiva, 1902 - 2002 - Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales - MNAV, Montevideo |
2002
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| Que le monde est petit - Occurrence, espace d´art et d'essai contemporains, Montreal, QC |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photographs and The Spirit of Mexico - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo - Optical Parables - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Stories and Illusions: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Voices of Images - Macau Museum of Art, Macao |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - 100 Years - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Cien años de luz - Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona |
2001
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Retrospectief - Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Optical Parables - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Exposición de Manuel Alvarez Bravo - MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
2000
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Light Forms - Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Caja de visiones - FFI - Fotografie Forum international, Frankfurt/Main |
1999
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| Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo - The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX |
1998
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| Espíritus arbóreos - Museo de las Artes Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara |
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
1997
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| Variaciones 1995-1997 - Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Caja de visiones - fotografiás de Manuel Álvarez Bravo - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
1993
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| Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - la grande rétrospective - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
1991
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| Revelaciones - Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, BC |
1990
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Mexico's Master Photographer - Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
1987
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo: A Retrospective - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1981
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| Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL |
1978
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo: A Retrospective - The Americas Society Art Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Manuel Alvaraez Bravo - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1974
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| Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1973
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1971
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 136
2012
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| The Latin American Photobook - Aperture Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Gaze - The Changing Face of Portrait Photography - Istanbul Modern, Istanbul |
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| The Supersurrealism - Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö |
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| The Dwelling Life of Man - Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort |
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| Howard Greenberg, Collection - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| A WINDOW ON THE WORLD, from Dürer to Mondrian and beyond - Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano |
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| Fifty Years Of Latin American Art: Selections From The Neuberger Museum Of Art - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| La Colección. Fotografía moderna mexicana: Imagen, procesos vitales y autonomía expresiva - Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico City, Mexico City |
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| Various Artists - From Collectors' Archives - Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Looking Forward - Looking Back - G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2011
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| Fifteen Years - Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
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| La Colección: Diferencia y continuidad en el arte moderno mexicano - Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico City, Mexico City |
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| Selections Two - Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO |
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| Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo - Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (England) |
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| Polaroid [Im]Possible - WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie, Vienna |
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| Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| CLAP - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
2010
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| Fragments latino-américains - Maison de l'Amérique Latine, Paris |
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| Autour de l'extreme - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
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| México : esperado/inesperado - B.P.S.22 - Espace de Création Contemporaine, Charleroi |
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| Mexico Beyond Its Revolution - Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA |
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| Luces en Alba: Dawning Lights in Mexican Photography - Kresge Art Museum, Lansing, MI |
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| The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Dawn of Modernism - Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| México 200 Tierra y Gente: Modern Mexican Works on Paper - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| Indigenismo: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art - The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
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| Face to Face - Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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| Aipad The Photography Show - Scheinbaum & Russek LTD, Santa Fe, NM |
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| La collection s'expose - Polaroïd en péril ! - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography - Aperture Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Mexico: Expected/Unexpected. Collection Isabel and Agustín Coppel - Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam |
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| In Focus: The Worker - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| La photographie n'est pas l'art". chefs-d'oeuvre de la photographie des avant-gardes a nos jours - Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels |
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| Scheinbaum & Russek Presents: Spring 2010 - Scheinbaum & Russek LTD, Santa Fe, NM |
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| The Malcolmson Collection - Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, BC |
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| Faces - Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO |
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| Mexico: Expected / Unexpected - TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Reality Revisted - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| The Eternal Feminine - Scheinbaum & Russek LTD, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Prohibido el cante. Flamenco y fotografía - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla |
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| 20 / 20 - G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2008
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| Collection Agustín et Isabel Coppel, Mexico: Expected/Unexpected - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Frida Kahlo - Portraits of an icon - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Fotógrafos da Vida Moderna - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo |
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| Frida Kahlo and the Mexican Renaissance - Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| A Mind at Play - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Artitsts see Artists /Portraits 1895-1979 - - Deborah Bell/Photographs, New York City, NY (closed, 2011) |
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| Street & Studio: an urban history of photography - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Second Thoughts - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Les Archives de l´Imagination - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
2007
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| The Other Side of Light: Shadows from the Photography Collection - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| A Selection Of Vintage And Contemporary Photographs - ArteF Fine Art Photography Gallery, Zurich |
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| Two Eyes on Mexico: Photographs by Paul Strand and Manuel Alvarez Bravo - The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN |
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| Private Collections - Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
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| RETRATOS DE OTRO SIGLO. Colección fotográfica del Ayuntamiento de Vigo - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| Ingenium.Photographie et Ingeniosite 1846 - 2006 - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| VIP - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| Frida Kahlo - Images of an Icon - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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| For the People - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
2006
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| Lola Alvarez Bravo & Her Circle - Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Revelation (Uppenbar(a)t) - Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm |
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| Photography Collection - Galeria Ramis Barquet - 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Corpus Christi. Christusdarstellungen in der Fotografie - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems |
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| Mexican Modern - Masters of the 20th Century - New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Frente a frente - Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid |
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| Rethinking the Photographic Image - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| My Collection - Museo Ken Damy, Brescia |
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| Frida Kahlo - La gran ocultadora - Fundación Luis Seoane, A Coruña |
2005
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| An Exhibition of Mexican Masters and Contemporary Artists - Castel Gallery - College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY |
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| Men of Mexico - Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Colección Femsa - una mirada continental - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
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| The Passion of The Private Collector - Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam |
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| Go Figure - Selections From The Permanent Collection - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| Documentary & Anti-Graphic Photographs - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Exposed! - Thirty Years of collecting Photography - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
2004
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| Suites - From the Permanent Collection - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
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| Documentary and anti-graphic photographs - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris |
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| Selections - 20th-century Latin American Art in the VMFA Collection - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| Main - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Why not live for Art? - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo |
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| Defining Moments - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| Faces, Places, Traces - New Acquisitions to the Photographs Collection - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
2003
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| Corpus Christi _ Christus-Darstellungen in der photographie, 1850-2001 - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Herb Ritts Private Collection - Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Content - Rem Koolhaas und OMA-AMO - Bauten, Projekte und Konzepte seit 1996 - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| fables de l'identité - Centre national de la photographie, Paris |
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| Les choix dCB - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris |
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| Bridging the Border: Shared Themes in Mexican and US Art 1900 - 1950 - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
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| Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Portraits Of Frida - Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Mexican Suites Part 2: Photography in Mexico - Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY |
2002
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| Animagerie = Animagery - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| La Révolution surréaliste - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Official Ansel Adams and Manuel Bravo: 100th Birthday Celebration - The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA |
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| Diego y Frida: Photographs by Various Photographers - Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY |
2001
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| Picture This - Permanent Collection Photography - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
2000
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| Latin American Artist-Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Col - El Museo del Barrio, New York City, NY |
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| Four 20th Century Masters In Mexico - Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Face to Face - Artists & Their Work - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| 2000 Words: musings on the medium - TPW - Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, ON |
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| Sol y Vida - Mexican Modern Art: 1900-1950 - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
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| Persuasive Images: Selections from the Art Collections at the University at Albany - University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY |
1999
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| Mexican Modern Art - 1900-1950 - The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| New Photography Acquisitions and Permanent Collection - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
1998
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| Instants of Revelation: The Mexicos of Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Octavio Paz (Instante de Revelación) - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
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| Backstage - Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Private ficcions - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Tina Modotti Und Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Waterproof/A Prova de Agua - Centro Cultural de Belém - CCB, Lisbon |
1997
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| Manuel and Lola Alvarez-Bravo: Photographs - Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Color Detour - Apexart, New York City, NY |
1996
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| L'œil du collectionneur - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Homanaje a Bretón - Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City |
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| Capolavori di fotografia della Fondazione Select. Gli anni '70 - CACT Centro d´Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona |
1994
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| Frida Kahlo - 45 Portraits - Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan |
1993
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| Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Graciela Iturbide - Selected Photographs - Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, CA |
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| Lateinamerika und der Surrealismus - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum |
1992
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| Figure/Form: The Nude in 20th Century Photography - Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1989
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| Selected Sin - Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1988
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| Imagen de Mexico - Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne |
1985
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| 18° Bienal de Sao Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
1982
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| Wand Bild Mexico - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1978
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| Two Portfolios: Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Elliott Erwitt - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
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| La photographie de 1900 à 1950 - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1974
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| Public Landscapes: An Exhibition of Photographs - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1964
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| The Photographer's Eye - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1935
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| Documentary and anti-graphic photographs - - Julien Levy Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1949) |
Dealer Directory 17 |
France
Germany
Italy
| | Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan
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United Kingdom
| | Diemar/Noble Photogrphy, London (England)
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USA
| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX
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| | Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Cook Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO
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| | Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| | Scheinbaum & Russek LTD, Santa Fe, NM
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| | Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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| | Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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| | G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
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| | Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Canada
| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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France
| | FRAC - Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux
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| | Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon sur Saône
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| | Le Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse
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Israel
| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Mexico
| | Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico City, Mexico City
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| | Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan
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Sweden
| | Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Switzerland
| | Fotostiftung Schweiz (Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie), Winterthur
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United Kingdom
| | The Photographers' Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY
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| | UNM Art Museum - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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| | Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
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| | Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
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| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL
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| | Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables (Miami), FL
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA
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| | The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
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| | Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, San Marcos, TX
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| | Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
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Catalogs
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