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Enrique Metinides

Author of 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides

4 Works 33 Members 3 Reviews

Works by Enrique Metinides

101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides (2012) — Photographer — 15 copies
Enrique Metinides (2003) 10 copies

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Series is an attempt to examine Enrique Metinides work from the perspective of cinematography, sequentially revealing facts that come together in a substantial way to form a common motif with continuity—thematic at least—between the various episodes of his oeuvre. This iconoclastic approach allows us to see that the work of Enrique Metinides is one of both fact and fiction. Showing that an act took place, that it really happened, gives the photographs the chance to vindicate their real and their fictional aspects; it also allows viewers to be conscious of their own confusion as they struggle to take a position vis-à-vis ambiguous material and makes it possible for them to redeploy their gaze.

Metinides was born to a family of Greek immigrants in Mexico City in 1934. He published his first photo at the age of twelve, earning him the nickname El Niño (The Boy). A year later, he became an unpaid intern as a crime reporter for the tabloid La Prensa beginning a prolific five decade career in photography. He worked as a photographer from 1949 to 1979 as part of the Nota Roja (bloody news), shooting photos of crime, murder, airplane crashes and other disasters for Mexico City tabloids. Series is an attempt to examine his work from the perspective of cinematography, sequentially revealing facts that come together in a substantial way to form a common motif with continuity between the various episodes of his oeuvre.
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petervanbeveren | Jan 10, 2023 |
Wonderful photos. Revealing commentary on them. Occasionally terrible layout, with many two-page spreads where the most important details are obscured by being smack in the middle of the two pages.
 
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g026r | Mar 19, 2013 |

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