Day of the Dead (Día de todos muertos)
1933
Manuel Álvarez (Mexican, 1902-2002)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Manuel Álvarez (Mexican, 1902-2002)
  • Title: Day of the Dead (Día de todos muertos)
  • Date: 1933
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: Image: 9-5/8 x 7-1/2 in. (24.5 x 19.1 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Museum Purchase through the Florence V. Burden Foundation
  • Accession Number: PH.1971.037
  • Copyright: © Courtesy Asociación Manuel Álvarez Bravo, A.C. & ROSEGALLERY

Object Information

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Mexico's Master Photographer

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1990-09-06 to 1991-03-17

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1971-05-04 to 1971-06-20
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 1971-07-07 to 1971-08-25
  • George Eastman House, 1971-09-06 to 1971-10-15
  • Humboldt State College, 1972-05-01 to 1972-06-15
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1972-08-04 to 1972-09-29
  • Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, 1972-11-03 to 1972-12-17
  • Friends of Photography, 1973-01-02 to 1973-01-28
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973-02-27 to 1973-03-12
  • Milwaukee Art Center, 1973-03-23 to 1973-04-22
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1973-06-04 to 1973-07-22

All Consuming: Art and the Essence of Food

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2023-04-14 to 2023-08-14
  • Parker, Fred R., Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 1971, no. 26 p. 39
  • Gloria Williams, The Collectible Moment: Catalogue of Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum, 2006, cat. 26 p. 122

Additional Artwork by Artist

Absent Portrait (Retrato ausente) Manuel Álvarez 1945
Black Tomb with Crown (Tumba negra con corona) Manuel Álvarez 1964
Exercises for the Well Prepared Camera (Ensayos para cámara bien enfocada) Manuel Álvarez 1952

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