Manuel Álvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries: Photographs from the Collections of the Harry Ransom Center and The Blanton Museum of Art
March 20 - August 1, 2010
Featuring forty-five iconic images of Mexico in the first half of the 20th-century, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries: Photographs from the Collections of the Harry Ransom Center and The Blanton Museum of Art examines the life and work of Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Commonly referred to as the father of Mexican photography, Bravo is considered one of the most important figures in the development of modernism in Mexico. Organized as part of the University of Texas' celebration of the Mexican Bicentennial, the exhibition will also include photographs by Bravo's contemporaries, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand and others, drawn from the collections of The Blanton and The Harry Ransom Center.
![El ensueño [The Daydream], from Fifteen Photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 1931](/images/bma/works_of_art/exhibitions/modern_and_contemporary/bravo.jpg)
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
El ensueño [The Daydream], from Fifteen Photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 1931
Silver print
Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1975
Warhol Ads
August 14, 2010 - January 16, 2011
One of the last portfolios of prints made by the artist before his death in 1987, Andy Warhol's series of ten silkscreens, Ads, embodies the artist's signature Pop aesthetic. Using magazine advertisements and corporate logos from the 1950s—the moment in his career when he worked as an advertising designer—as source material, Warhol's Ads convey irony, reverence, and critique of American popular culture as well as great wit.
Andy Warhol
Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean), from Ads, 1985
Screenprint, printed in nine colors from nine screens
Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1985
