His first photography teacher was a man named Hugo Brehme. From Brehme, Bravo learned how to blur through darkroom techniques. Bravo bought his first camera when he was twenty-four years old. Bravo can remember exactly where he got his first camera, "I bought my first camera from a firm called Islas Hermanos" . Bravo also bought a Verito lens, which diffuses the scene before it, and learned the oil-pigment bromoil developing process, which gave photographers something of the blurred color surface of paintings . Bravo played around with abstract images of folded paper. Next he begun to photograph pai

I choose three of his pictures to write about. The first one is called Portrait of the Eternal (1935). It features a woman with long, dark hair holding a small mirror to her face. A light is shining on the right side of the woman's body, "pulling her out of darkness" . There is a lot of detail even though it is only of a woman. The mirror that she is holding is frequently a symbol for vanity highlights age and the passage of time . I like this picture, there is just something about it that draws you in. I wait to see if the woman will move from the darkness. The second picture is called Bicycles on Sunday (1966). This picture is of four men ridding their bikes through what it looks like a desert. The land is very flat, with no trees or anything else around. But the field of depth reveals mountains in the background. It looks as though Bravo was out in the middle of nowhere, yet there are these four men riding their bikes to who knows where. It makes me wonder how long they have been riding their bikes, or how close they are to their destination. The third picture I choose was called How Small the World Is (1942). This picture shows a man and a woman walking past one another with a huge wall behind them, and laundry hung on top of the building that is hidden behind the wall. For a moment, paths intersect on a city street, sometimes acknowledged but often not . The title fits the picture perfect. If this picture had not been given a name, I almost think that the picture

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Approximate Word count = 996
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)