manuel álvarez bravo

el trapo negro (the black cloth), 1986

el sonador (the dreamer), 1931

blurred polaroid

el ensueno (the daydream), 1931

study of tamayo's hands, 1931

ana maria d.g., 1985

luz restirada (stretched light), 1944

the eclipse, 1933

forbidden fruit, 1977

colors, 1966

the threshold, 1947

signals & prognostications, 1938

las tentaciones en la casa de antonio (temptations in the house of anthony), méxico, 1970

portrait of the eternal, 1935

señor de papantla (man from papantla), 1934

untitled, 1960

the good reputation, sleeping, 1938

all photographs by manuel álvarez bravo

"i think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death."