Bravo, Manuel Alvarez. Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

University of New Mexico Press, 1990, 1992. Published for the Museum of Photographic Arts. Essay by Nissan N. Perez. Introduction by Arthur Ullman.  Text in both English and Spanish. Wraps, very good with crimp bottom right corner of front cover. First edition, second printing; 134 pages; 44 duo-toned black and white plates and 10 text illustrations; 8.5 x 11 inches. From an unnumbered edition limited to 3500 copies. Summary:

Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Álvarez Bravo is a retrospective photographic catalogue and critical overview of the work of Mexican master photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo, published on the occasion of the bilingual traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego in 1990.

The book spans 134 pages and features 44 black-and-white plates alongside text in both English and Spanish, including an introduction by curator Arthur Ollman and an interpretive essay by Nissan N. Perez. It also includes a chronology and checklist of works that help situate Álvarez Bravo’s long career.

Structured as a visual survey of his art, Revelaciones presents a selection of the photographer’s most significant images from across decades—from his early explorations in the 1920s through later work—showing how he brought a uniquely poetic, surreal, and culturally rooted eye to the everyday life, landscapes, and people of Mexico. The photographs illustrate Bravo’s ability to combine formal elegance, symbolic depth, and moments of quiet intensity, reflecting influences from Surrealism and Mexican cultural history while remaining deeply tied to the visual realities of his native country.

The accompanying essays and commentary provide contextual analysis, explaining how Álvarez Bravo’s work emerged at a pivotal time in 20th-century art and photography and emphasizing his role in shaping Mexico’s photographic identity for international audiences. Through images and text, the book conveys the rich aesthetic and thematic range of his photography, from stark street scenes to evocative symbolic compositions that invite contemplation of life, tradition, and visual perception.