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Optical Parable

MAKER:
Artist

Manuel Álvarez Bravo ( Mexican, 1902 - 2002 )

CULTURE:
Mexican
DATE:
1931
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Mexico (nation)
Mexico City (Mexico)
Modern (style or period)
Surrealist (style or movement)
eyeglasses (equipment for personal vision use)
eyes (animal or human components)
eyes (motif)
gelatin silver prints
gelatin silver process
geometric shape
human (culture)
humans (homo sapiens species)
life (biological concepts)
looking glasses
modernist (European style)
negatives (photographic)
ophthalmologists (people in health and medicine)
optical concepts (physics / physical sciences concepts)
optical properties
opticians (people in crafts and trades by product)
optics (physics / physical sciences)
optometrists (people in health and medicine)
oval (shape)
parables (document genres for literary works)
parabolas (plane figures)
perspective (technique)
photographs
photography (discipline)
prints (visual works)
reversibility (reversible)
shop signs
shops (stores)
signage
signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
storefronts (façades)
stores (mercantile / commercial buildings)
storytelling
street scenes
streets
text (layout feature)
theme
viewpoint (visual or representational concept)
vignettes (visual works)
visual effects (special effects)
words
works on paper
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