Ladder of ladders (Escala de escalas)

Photography and Media

1931

Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Mexican, 1902–2002

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Manuel Alvarez-Bravo
Title: Ladder of ladders (Escala de escalas)
Place: Mexico (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1931
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, in graphite: "Muelvarez Bravo"; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image/paper: 23.3 × 18 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/8 in.); Mount: 40.5 × 30.5 cm (16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean Levy and the Estate of Julien Levy
Reference Number: 1988.157.7

Sire, Agnes and William Ewing. 2004. “Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs; Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans.” Exh. cat. Steidl. p. 62.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
Valencia, Spain, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno Centre Julio Gonzalez, “Modern Photography in Mexico, 1923–1940,” January 29–May 17, 1998.
New York, New York, The Equitable Gallery, “Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery,” August 13–October 31, 1998.
Paris, France, Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, “Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Manuel Alvarez-Bravo,” September 7–December 22, 2004; traveled to Switzerland, Musee de L’Elysee, February 10–April 10, 2005.

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