Swann Galleries - New York Sale 2345, The Vernacular Eye: Photographic Albums, Snapshots & Objects, 17 April 2014, Lot: 207
Though not an official member of the Surrealist Movement, Bravo was a compatriot of Breton and the Surrealists in Mexico City. On this photograph, Bravo mused: "There at number 20 Calle de Guatemala, I saw many things that marked me forever. I walked a lot through the adjoining streets; I especially liked to watch the customs porters in Santiago Tlatelolco station, who after work would fall asleep exhausted on the sidewalk. I felt great compassion for them. I am happy to have lived in those streets. There everything was food for my camera, everything had an inherent social content; in life everything has social content."
