Enrique Metinides 101 Tragödien des Enrique Metinides
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. Jaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides (b. 1934 in Mexico City) pub – lished 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.
Hardcover
with dust jacket
21,6 x 26,4 cm
184 pages
181 color illustrations
German
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-333-4
2012
Artists:
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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. Jaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides (b. 1934 in Mexico City) pub – lished 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.
Hardcover
with dust jacket
21,6 x 26,4 cm
184 pages
181 color illustrations
German
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-333-4
2012
Artists:
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