{"id":302,"date":"2013-02-21T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=302"},"modified":"2013-02-28T20:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:09:34","slug":"exhibit-in-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2013\/02\/21\/exhibit-in-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Paul Strand in the Library Exhibit Cases!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Library is displaying photographs of Mexico by <b>Manuel Alvarez Bravo<\/b> and <b>Paul Strand<\/b> in the central display cases on the main floor of the library.<\/p>\n<p><b>Manuel Alvarez Bravo<\/b> (1902-2002) was Mexico\u2019s first principal artistic photographer and is the most important figure in 20<sup>th<\/sup> century Latin American photography.\u00a0 He was born and raised in Mexico City.\u00a0 He took art classes at the Academy of San Carlos, but his photography was self-taught.\u00a0 His career formed in the decades after the Mexican Revolution and spanned from the late 1920s to the 1990s, with his artistic peak between the 1920s to the 1950s.\u00a0 His early work was based on European influences, but he was soon influenced by the Mexican muralism movement and the general cultural and political push at the time to redefine Mexican identity.\u00a0 He rejected the picturesque, employing elements to avoid stereotyping.\u00a0 Over his career he had numerous exhibitions of his work, worked in the Mexican cinema, and established Fondo Editorial de la Plastica Mexicana publishing house.<\/p>\n<p><b>Paul Strand<\/b> (1890-1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa.\u00a0 From 1932-35, he lived in Mexico and worked on <i>Redes<\/i> (1936), a film commissioned by the Mexican government, released in the U.S. as <i>The Wave<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 photographs in the first edition of Strand\u2019s <b><i>Mexican Portfolio<\/i><\/b> were printed from steel-faced gravure plates made in 1940 by master platemaker\u00a0 Otto Wackernagel.\u00a0\u00a0 The photographs presented in the Harold F. Johnson Library are from\u00a0 <b><i>Paul Strand:\u00a0 The Mexican Portfolio<\/i><\/b>, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Edition, 1967.\u00a0\u00a0 They were printed by Albert DeLong from the original plates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/02\/Strand-09-Woman-and-Boy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303\" alt=\"Strand, Paul American (1890-1976) Woman and Boy, Tenancingo 1933 Photograph HC 1031.009 From the Hampshire College Collection \" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/02\/Strand-09-Woman-and-Boy-246x300.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/02\/Strand-09-Woman-and-Boy-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/02\/Strand-09-Woman-and-Boy-210x255.jpg 210w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2013\/02\/Strand-09-Woman-and-Boy.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strand, Paul<br \/>American (1890-1976)<br \/>Woman and Boy, Tenancingo<br \/>1933<br \/>Photograph<br \/>HC 1031.009<br \/>From the Hampshire College Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>-On Display during Regular Library Hours-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library is displaying photographs of Mexico by Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Paul Strand in the central display cases on the main floor of the library. 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