Sunday, April 3, 2011

Manuel Alvarez Bravo [1902-2002]

Running Boy. 1950's
The triangle of the boy's legs with that cable and post are quite nice. It's crazy how the his legs are pretty much at the same angle as the cable's...
 The door and the window have a rectangular  resemblance as well.

El Color 1966
I love the framing done of the person sweeping. It politely asks your eye like "Hey, come look at this real quick." The serpentine figure in the door on the left is interesting. The photograph it self is almost divided into 3 backgrounds, unified as one through the ground.
Flight Over The Sea. 1939


Amazing how the seagulls[?] are flying parallel to the sea and its waves. At first glance they were kind of hard to notice but since the eye reads this horizontally, the eye immediately cathes the birds alignment and is able to appreciate it. 



Lovers of the Fake Moon. 1970's
What I like about this photograph was this big moonlike shape, more like a concrete patch i think, and how it goes nice diagonally with the other elements in this image. Two boys walking down the street, the sign is divides into 2, there' asymmetrical balance of the big wall and the small ground... All factors of what makes this composition work so well. Nothing fancy, yet nothing less.

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