Nudes: The Blue House
First edition of Nudes: The Blue House by Manuel Alvarez Bravo (2002)
First impression
Medium format hardback in near fine condition
Some very minor wear to boards
Some very slight toning to extremities of pages
Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm
About
"Manuel Alvarez Bravo portrays and presents these women's bodies not to tell us to be content with what the world gives us, not to limit our desire, and not to ask us merely to conform, but to make us a gift of the body in person—a body here and now that does not sacrifice any of its potentialities, none of its cans and none of its nerves. Here they are for anyone who knows how to look: the idea of the feminine body and its negation; the harmony of the body and the soul but also a possible disharmony; the presence of the body but also its inevitable absence; its pleasure but also its pain."
—Carlos Fuentes
Description
First edition of Nudes: The Blue House by Manuel Alvarez Bravo (2002)
First impression
Medium format hardback in near fine condition
Some very minor wear to boards
Some very slight toning to extremities of pages
Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm
About
"Manuel Alvarez Bravo portrays and presents these women's bodies not to tell us to be content with what the world gives us, not to limit our desire, and not to ask us merely to conform, but to make us a gift of the body in person—a body here and now that does not sacrifice any of its potentialities, none of its cans and none of its nerves. Here they are for anyone who knows how to look: the idea of the feminine body and its negation; the harmony of the body and the soul but also a possible disharmony; the presence of the body but also its inevitable absence; its pleasure but also its pain."
—Carlos Fuentes
