Metinides, Enrique

Enrique Metinides [RARE 2003 RIDINGHOUSE MONOGRAPH - FINE COPY]

Ridinghouse, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Ridinghouse. 2003. Hardcover in pictorial boards. First Edition, First Printing. Text in Spanish and English. 134 pages with 73 photos. Text: Geoff Dyer, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Gabirel Kuri. Often cited as the Mexican Wegee, this rare monograph showcases Enrique Metinides's famous photographs of crime, accidents and disaster in and around Mexico City. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy showing hints of rubbing to extremities. Nice copy!

Metinides worked as a crime photographer from 1948 to his forced retirement in 1997, taking thousands of images and following hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City such as crime scenes, car crashes and natural catastrophes. His work was principally published in the “nota roja” (literally “red news” because of bloody images), sections and event whole journals characterized by crude text and sensationalist photography dealing with violence and death. The success of these publications in Mexico and other parts of Latin America is due to a cultural obsession with death, one difficult to understand from the outside. Sometime after his retirement, his work began to be appreciated on their own merit and artistic value, being exhibited in Mexico, the United States and Europe. Fine. Item #5221
ISBN: 0954171047

Price: $350.00