Gorrión, Claro (Skylight)

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Portfolio published by Acorn Editions Limited

Negative 1938 - 1940; printed 1977

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300 State Street, Stanley Blake McNeely, photograph
Abstract color pastel
This image is created with black ink on yellowed paper. It represents a group of three figures in the lower right of the image, standing in front of a fence. Behind the fence a leafless tree rises at the right and the roof of a building topped by a birdhouse on stilts rises at the left. Three birds fly above the birdhouse and two are seated on it.
This black and white print represents a nude man with a beard and chest hair. His hands are chained, and he is using extreme strength to break two pillars (likely the two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, where the biblical figure of Samson dies).