1993.35 Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Optical Parable, 1931


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NOTES
México 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant Garde.

Catalogue essays

Artist/designers
Alvarez Bravo_Manuel: ULAN: 500028115

Cultures

Geography 
Mexico (nation): TGN: 7005560
Mexico City (Mexico): TGN: 7007227

Process/materials
gelatin silver prints: AAT: 300128695
gelatin silver process: AAT: 300139114

Historical periods

Individuals

Subject terms
works on paper: AAT: 300189621
photographs: AAT: 300046300
photography (discipline): AAT: 300389795
prints (visual works): AAT: 300041273
streets: AAT: 300008247
street scenes: AAT: 300386103
storefronts (façades): AAT: 300002533
stores (mercantile / commercial buildings): AAT: 300005283
shops (stores): AAT: 300005283
optometrists (people in health and medicine): AAT: 300237219
ophthalmologists (people in health and medicine): AAT: 300237241
opticians (people in crafts and trades by product): AAT: 300237213
eyeglasses (equipment for personal vision use): AAT: 300266808
eyes (animal or human components): AAT: 300400484
eyes (motif): AAT: 300263475
optical concepts (physics / physical sciences concepts): AAT: 300237919
optical properties: AAT: 300056210
optics (physics / physical sciences): AAT: 300054570
parables (document genres for literary works): AAT: 300185342
storytelling: AAT: 300250904
signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts): AAT: 300123013
shop signs: AAT: 300211862
signage: AAT: 300193977
geometric shape: AAT: 300263819
oval (shape): AAT: 300263817
parabolas (plane figures): AAT: 300163052
perspective (technique): AAT: 300056340
visual effects (special effects): AAT: 300236881
negatives (photographic): AAT: 300127173
reversibility (reversible): AAT: 300191643
text (layout feature): AAT: 300250810
words: AAT: 300250895
viewpoint (visual or representational concept): AAT: 300056365
theme: AAT: 300195523
looking glasses: AAT: 300037690
Modern (style or period): AAT: 300264736
modernist (European style): AAT: 300021474
Surrealist (style or movement): AAT: 300021512
vignettes (visual works): AAT: 300033749
life (biological concepts): AAT: 300055134
human (culture): AAT: 300393250
humans (homo sapiens species): AAT: 300265711

RELATED OBJECTS 

PROVENANCE 
From 1993: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of DMA Friends of Photography [1], [2], [3]

[1] The main source for this provenance was existing information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.  

[2] The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated May 12, 1993, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[3] The main source for this provenance is letter from Annegreth Nill, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, to Friends of Photography (dated May 25, 1993, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

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Notes
México 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant Garde.

Catalogue essays

Artist/designers
Alvarez Bravo_Manuel: ULAN: 500028115

Cultures

Geography 
Mexico (nation): TGN: 7005560
Mexico City (Mexico): TGN: 7007227

Process/materials
gelatin silver prints: AAT: 300128695
gelatin silver process: AAT: 300139114

Historical periods

Individuals

Subject terms
works on paper: AAT: 300189621
photographs: AAT: 300046300
photography (discipline): AAT: 300389795
prints (visual works): AAT: 300041273
streets: AAT: 300008247
street scenes: AAT: 300386103
storefronts (façades): AAT: 300002533
stores (mercantile / commercial buildings): AAT: 300005283
shops (stores): AAT: 300005283
optometrists (people in health and medicine): AAT: 300237219
ophthalmologists (people in health and medicine): AAT: 300237241
opticians (people in crafts and trades by product): AAT: 300237213
eyeglasses (equipment for personal vision use): AAT: 300266808
eyes (animal or human components): AAT: 300400484
eyes (motif): AAT: 300263475
optical concepts (physics / physical sciences concepts): AAT: 300237919
optical properties: AAT: 300056210
optics (physics / physical sciences): AAT: 300054570
parables (document genres for literary works): AAT: 300185342
storytelling: AAT: 300250904
signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts): AAT: 300123013
shop signs: AAT: 300211862
signage: AAT: 300193977
geometric shape: AAT: 300263819
oval (shape): AAT: 300263817
parabolas (plane figures): AAT: 300163052
perspective (technique): AAT: 300056340
visual effects (special effects): AAT: 300236881
negatives (photographic): AAT: 300127173
reversibility (reversible): AAT: 300191643
text (layout feature): AAT: 300250810
words: AAT: 300250895
viewpoint (visual or representational concept): AAT: 300056365
theme: AAT: 300195523
looking glasses: AAT: 300037690
Modern (style or period): AAT: 300264736
modernist (European style): AAT: 300021474
Surrealist (style or movement): AAT: 300021512
vignettes (visual works): AAT: 300033749
life (biological concepts): AAT: 300055134
human (culture): AAT: 300393250
humans (homo sapiens species): AAT: 300265711

RELATED OBJECTS 

PROVENANCE 
From 1993: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of DMA Friends of Photography [1], [2], [3]

[1] The main source for this provenance was existing information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.  

[2] The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated May 12, 1993, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[3] The main source for this provenance is letter from Annegreth Nill, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, to Friends of Photography (dated May 25, 1993, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

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Mexico (nation): TGN: 7005560
text (layout feature): AAT: 300250810
words: AAT: 300250895
Surrealist (style or movement): AAT: 300021512
geometric shape: AAT: 300263819
optics (physics / physical sciences): AAT: 300054570
works on paper: AAT: 300189621
*Latin American Art
oval (shape): AAT: 300263817
humans (homo sapiens species): AAT: 300265711
modernist (European style): AAT: 300021474
photography (discipline): AAT: 300389795
photographs: AAT: 300046300
gelatin silver process: AAT: 300139114
gelatin silver prints: AAT: 300128695
streets: AAT: 300008247
signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts): AAT: 300123013
signage: AAT: 300193977
Mexico City (Mexico): TGN: 7007227
eyes (animal or human components): AAT: 300400484
prints (visual works): AAT: 300041273
storytelling: AAT: 300250904
perspective (technique): AAT: 300056340
Modern (style or period): AAT: 300264736
looking glasses: AAT: 300037690
life (biological concepts): AAT: 300055134
shops (stores): AAT: 300005283
shop signs: AAT: 300211862
optical concepts (physics / physical sciences concepts): AAT: 300237919
vignettes (visual works): AAT: 300033749
stores (mercantile / commercial buildings): AAT: 300005283
street scenes: AAT: 300386103
storefronts (façades): AAT: 300002533
parables (document genres for literary works): AAT: 300185342
human (culture): AAT: 300393250
theme: AAT: 300195523
Alvarez Bravo_Manuel: ULAN: 500028115
viewpoint (visual or representational concept): AAT: 300056365
eyeglasses (equipment for personal vision use): AAT: 300266808
reversibility (reversible): AAT: 300191643
negatives (photographic): AAT: 300127173
optometrists (people in health and medicine): AAT: 300237219
ophthalmologists (people in health and medicine): AAT: 300237241
eyes (motif): AAT: 300263475
optical properties: AAT: 300056210
opticians (people in crafts and trades by product): AAT: 300237213
visual effects (special effects): AAT: 300236881
parabolas (plane figures): AAT: 300163052
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