Caja de visiones (Box of Visions)

© Colette Urbajtel/Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo, SC.

Caja de visiones (Box of Visions)

Currently not on view

Caja de visiones (Box of Visions),

1930s, printed 1977

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 1902–2002; born and died Mexico City, Mexico
Published by Acorn Editions Limited
x1979-136

Information

Title
Caja de visiones (Box of Visions)
Dates

1930s, printed 1977

Maker
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Published by Acorn Editions Limited
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19 x 23.5 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.) sheet: 20.3 x 25.5 cm. (8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frederick M. and Elizabeth Myers
Object Number
x1979-136
Place Made

North America, Mexico

Signatures
Signed, inscribed, and numbered in graphite, verso, bottom right: M. Alvarez Bravo | Mexico | 4/100
Culture
Mexican
Type
photographs, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
cameras, photograph viewing equipment, figures (representations), women, boxes (containers)

Frederick M. and Elizabeth Myers, Pittsfield, MA (by 1979); gift to Princeton University Art Museum.

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