"This volume presents Enrique Metinides's choice of the 101 key images
from his life photographing crime scenes and
accidents in Mexico for
local newspapers and the "nota roja" (red pages, for their bloody
content) crime press.
His images, sometimes compared to the American
photographer Weegee, are compelling, immediate, sometimes shocking, and
always authentic.
Alongside each image, extended captions give his
account of the situation depicted, describing the characters and life of
the streets, the sadness of families,
the criminals and the heroism of
emergency workers – revealing much of himself in the process.
Several
photographs are also paired with their original newsprint tearsheets,
collected by Metinides.
About the photographer, Jaralambos Enrique METINIDES Tsironides (b. 1934
in Mexico City)
Enrique METINIDES published his first photo at the age of twelve,
earning him the nickname 'El Niño' (the boy).
From the mid-1940s to the
early 1990s he has worked for different Mexican tabloid newspapers. His
images have been exhibited internationally,
e. g. at La Casa de América,
Madrid, at The Photographers Gallery, London, and at Recontres d'Arles,
and are in major collections like the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, the Princeton University Art Museum and the San Francisco MoMA.
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Trisha Ziff
- Format
- Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21,5 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 1,000 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!