'La buena fama durmiendo', [Good reputation sleeping] 1939, printed later

According to photography curator Victor Blasco, Bravo told the following story of this photograph and his association with the surrealist movement "One morning in 1939, while Alvarez Bravo was standing in line for his paycheck at the academy, he was summoned to the telephone. Someone calling on behalf of André Breton asked Alvarez Bravo to provide a cover photograph for the catalogue of the International Surrealist Exhibition which was to open in January 1940. After hanging up, Alvarez Bravo was overcome by a truly surrealistic impulse. Almost automatically he dialed his friend, Dr Francisco Arturo Marin, and told him he needed to have a model swathed in bandages. The doctor, under the impression that there had been an accident rushed to the scene. Next, the photographer asked Alicia, one of the academy models, to go up to the roof, and a porter was sent to a nearby central market to buy star cacti. Alvarez Bravo also borrowed a blanket from a security guard. Once all these components were assembled on the roof and at his disposal, with the midday sun above, Alvarez Bravo was ready to carry the conception of one of his most celebrated images: La buena fama durmiendo (The Good Reputation Sleeping)."