Obrero en huelga, asesinado (Striking Worker, Assassinated)
Obrero en huelga, asesinado (Striking Worker, Assassinated)

© Colette Urbajtel/Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo, SC.

Obrero en huelga, asesinado (Striking Worker, Assassinated)
Obrero en huelga, asesinado (Striking Worker, Assassinated)

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Obrero en huelga, asesinado (Striking Worker, Assassinated),

1934, printed 1974

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 1902–2002; born and died Mexico City, Mexico
Published by Double Elephant Press
x1991-257.10
This arresting image shows a union leader moments after he was fatally shot during a sugar-mill labor strike in Mexico.Suggesting the fragility between life and death, the glint that appears to remain in his eye is in fact a reflection of light in a pool of blood at the eye’s corner. Bravo’s placement of the comma in the title of the work helps transform the image from a mere representation of death to that of a politically motivated murder.

Information

Title
Obrero en huelga, asesinado (Striking Worker, Assassinated)
Dates

1934, printed 1974

Maker
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Published by Double Elephant Press
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
18.8 × 24.5 cm (7 3/8 × 9 5/8 in.) mount: 37.5 x 50.3 cm (14 3/4 x 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Levine
Object Number
x1991-257.10
Place Made

North America, Mexico

Signatures
Signed in graphite, lower right: M. Alvarez Bravo.
Inscription
in graphite, lower left: 42/75 in graphite, verso, lower right: 13 [portfolio number]
Culture
Mexican
Type
photographs, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
mounting, gelatin silver process
Subject
murders, blood (animal material), men, figures (representations)

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald D. Levine, New York, NY (by 1991); gift to Princeton University Art Museum.

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