Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Happy 100th Birthday Manuel Alvarez Bravo!!

Happy 100th Birthday Manuel Alvarez Bravo!!

The writer Carlos Monsivais talks about the book
being presented in homage to Alvarez Bravo.

Fourth Mahler Symphony at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Audio of the orchestra and public engaged
in singing "las mañanitas" in honor of
Alvarez Bravo, right after the concert.

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo as he prepares to cut
his birhtday cake with 100 candles

Among the hundreds of photographer present: (from left to right)
José Hernández Claire, Hector García and Sebastian Salgado,
while Enrique Villaseñor chooses to photograph instead
the pretty legs of the girl standing next to him.

to the article: "Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Ironizing Mexico"
by John Mraz