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Alvarez Bravo, Manuel
1902 - Alvarez Bravo was born in Mexico City on the 4th of February.
1918 - He studied painting and music at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes.
1920 - He had seen Weston experiment with refining details of his environment into abstractions with his camera.
1925 - He won his first award at a local photographic competition in Oaxaca.
1927 - He returned to Mexico City and met Tina Modotti.
2002 - He died at the age of 100 on the 19th of October.
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