William S. Burroughs once described Mexico City as &#;sinister and gloomy and chaotic, with the special chaos of a dream.&#; In fact, the sprawling megalopolis, home to 20 million people, is insistently literal—at once intensely alive and decaying, filled with bodies and odors and clangor.
For the last 50 years, photographer Enrique Metinides has cataloged Mexico City&#;s human calamities: murders, suicides, plane crashes, car wrecks, derailed trains, collapsed buildings, gas fires. His photographs—most of them published by the tabloids La Prensa and Alarma!—are Mexico&#;s answer to Weegee&#;s New York City crime scenes. Like Weegee, Metinides has an eye for cinematic detail and a kind of point-blank lyricism. His photos have a beginning, a middle, and an end; to look at one is to experience anew a tragedy that is eternally in media res.
Metinides began taking pictures at age 10 with a box Brownie camera his father gave him. By age 12 he was a prolific street photographer, documenting the city&#;s traffic accidents. He was such a fixture at these smash-ups that local police dubbed him El Niño (&#;the boy&#;), a nickname that has stuck over the year
La periodista Adela Legarreta Rivas había ido al salón de belleza a arreglarse para la presentación de su último libro, pero en el camino fue arrollada por un Datsun blanco que prensó su cuerpo entre dos postes de luz.
Desde los años cuarenta y durante casi cincuenta años, Enrique Metinides cubrió accidentes y tragedias, el caos urbano y la mala fortuna de algunos habitantes de la Ciudad de México para el periódico La Prensa. En esta impactante imagen se hace patente la maestría del fotorreportero como relator de historias, así como su habilidad para iluminar y componer imágenes que se asemejan a escenas cinematográficas.
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Primer plano de mujer rubia arrollada e impactada contra poste, Av. Chapultepec y calle Monterrey, 29 de abril de ,
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It almost looks like a glamor shot magazines like Face or advertisers like United Colors of Benetton often throws your way. Her blonde hair looked so soft, her manicured fingernails so red, her glistening bracelet and handbag so readily beside, the red cross aide so solicitous in bending over her that you can almost feel like it has been staged. The woman was an actress named Adela Legarreta Rivas, but she was actually hit by a car and killed on Mexico City&#;s Avenida Chapultepec in
She was draped across a fallen pole, her arm hanging like a rag doll’s around it, the bridge of her perfect nose intersected by a single line of blood. It seems as if Edgar Allen Poe, he who elevated deaths of beautiful women into sublime art and said such death is &#;the most poetical topic in the world&#;, had taken this photo, but the man who captured this image was Enrique Metinides. Metinides, whose photos often looked like stills from pulp graphic novels and film noirs, is the most accomplished photographer for the Mexican version of tabloid press, the nota roja. As its name (bloody news) suggests, nota roja covers not celebrity scandals, but death and destruction: car crashes, fires, s
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Un paesaggio vasto e variegato, con la ricerca inconscia di El Dorado sullo sfondo, ha reso il Messico un luogo affascinante per i fotografi.
─── di Isabel O'Toole, 10 gennaioIl Messico è una terra ricca di religione e superstizione. Le culture antiche hanno fortemente influenzato la società moderna creando un crogiolo di idee e tradizioni diverse.
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Graciela Iturbide, protagonista della fotografia messicana, ha documentato per decenni il suo paese natale, creando un ritratto etnografico del vasto territorio. Fortemente influenzata dal maestro modernista messicano Manuel Alvarez Bravo, che ha assistito negli anni Settanta, il suo lavoro si concentra principalmente sulle culture indigene del Messico che ancora prevalgono. Con un'attenzione particolare alle donne zapote di Juchitan, i tropi visivi visti nel suo lavoro evocano le credenze superstiziose del popolo messicano. Nel "Angel Lady nel deserto di Sonora", una donna scruta il pae
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