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"...A Fish Called Saw"

Manual Alvarez Bravo assigned titles to his photographs that hinted at deeper meanings and engaged in word play. In titling this image taken on the seacoast, he alluded to the common name for the Spanish mackerel (held by the girl) and to the word’s other meanings. "Sierra," the name for this notoriously toothy fish, is also the word for saw, as well as the word for any rugged mountain range with an irregular profile—a possible reference to the shape formed by the shawl over this indigenous Mexican girl’s head. Alvarez Bravo has been celebrated as Mexico’s greatest photographer. On the effect that growing up during that country’s revolutionary violence had on his work, Alvarez said "the concept of death is explicit or implicit in my photographs." He was known for attempting to capture a popular art, one that he saw as traditionally Mexican, incorporating youth and beauty with representations of fate and death. Most of his images lack grandeur, presenting instead mysterious or poignant views of everyday objects and working- and middle-class Mexicans, many of whom appear to be calmly dreamlike.

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"...He who creates..." ( pg 69)

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"Aba": Woman's Dress

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"Adam and Eve" Candelabrum

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"Ant" Chair

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"As I figure..." (pg 71)

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"Bear-Woman" Vessel

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The sexual features of this creature have been emphasized so as to guarantee fertility to the woman who drank from it.

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"Caster Ware" Vase with Hunt Scene

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The wide body of this vase is decorated with a hunting scene in which a stag, doe, hare, and hound chase each other around the vessel. Dotted lines above and below the animals form a border around the scene, though the heads of the creatures occasionally poke above it. While larger barbotine decorations were usually mold made and applied to a leather-hard surface, the figures on our pot were piped on by hand.

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"Fire Whistle" (pg 25)

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"...A Fish Called Saw"

"...He who creates..." ( pg 69)

"Aba": Woman's Dress

"Adam and Eve" Candelabrum

"Ant" Chair

"As I figure..." (pg 71)

"Bear-Woman" Vessel

"Caster Ware" Vase with Hunt Scene

"Do what makes you feel happy, and Love me" "Tu Was Dich Glucklich-Macht" (pg 01)

"Eleventh and St. Clair Accordian" (pg 25)

"Ferronnerie" Velvet Fragment

"Fire Whistle" (pg 25)