Día de Todos los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexican, 1902 - 2002

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negative 1933; print 1940s

Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 6 9/16 × 4 15/16 in. (16.6 × 12.5 cm)

Mount: 10 15/16 × 8 3/4 in. (27.8 × 22.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Oscar Rodriguez de la Vega Olivares, Tuck Class of 2017

2017.56.1

Geography

Place Made: Mexico, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Numbered, in graphite, on modern mat backing board, lower right: *MAB-2282

Course History

HIST 87.01, Culture and Identity in Modern Mexico, Bryan Winston, Winter 2022

Spanish 3.01, Spanish III, Doug Moody, Fall 2023

Provenance

Joel Soroka Galery, Aspen, Colorado, 2011; Chrisities online sale: Photographs: An Eclectic Eye, August 2016, lot 35; to Oscar Rodríguez de la Vega Olivares, Cambridge, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 2017.

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