Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Whom xavier villaurrutia imagined as a man with his head in his hands, like saint dionysius, spent his life with a camera in his hands. The latest model, the most sophisticated, the simplest, any camera, even a polaroid. Sometimes, on leaving the city, he would fill a bag with various camera, lenses, filters, a tripod. He took it all with him, and though he would use a stesdy hand. and a special relationship with sky and sunlight: they became his accomplices.