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Enrique Metinides (Mexican, b.1934)MEXICO CITY, APRIL 29, 1979Inkjet colour print, 1979/2015, signed
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Enrique Metinides (Mexican, b.1934)
MEXICO CITY, APRIL 29, 1979
Inkjet colour print, 1979/2015, signed and numbered 11/15 verso, accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the artist’s studio, on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta 315g paper
image 35.5 x 52cm, framed
At the age of ten, Enrique Metinides was given a brownie box camera by his father. The Brownie, launched in 1900, was a very basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on 117 roll film. Taking to the streets of the San Cosme neighbourhood of Mexico City where he lived, he began following grisly crime scenes: car crashes, street stabbings, shootings, suicides and murders.
Back then it was still possible for a photographer to approach the scene of an accident or crime. Metinides photographed his first dead body and published his first photograph when he was only twelve years old.
This work here, along with its certificate of authenticity, captured a tragic scene by Metinides; that of Adela Legarreta Rivas, a Mexican journalist. Rivas had visited a beauty parlour where she had her hair and nails done in preparation for a press conference later that day. On her way home, she was hit and killed by a white Datsun on Avenida Chapultepec.
During his fifty-year career as a photojournalist, Metinides never once left Mexico. He has won numerous awards and his work has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Photographers' Gallery in London.
MEXICO CITY, APRIL 29, 1979
Inkjet colour print, 1979/2015, signed and numbered 11/15 verso, accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the artist’s studio, on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta 315g paper
image 35.5 x 52cm, framed
At the age of ten, Enrique Metinides was given a brownie box camera by his father. The Brownie, launched in 1900, was a very basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on 117 roll film. Taking to the streets of the San Cosme neighbourhood of Mexico City where he lived, he began following grisly crime scenes: car crashes, street stabbings, shootings, suicides and murders.
Back then it was still possible for a photographer to approach the scene of an accident or crime. Metinides photographed his first dead body and published his first photograph when he was only twelve years old.
This work here, along with its certificate of authenticity, captured a tragic scene by Metinides; that of Adela Legarreta Rivas, a Mexican journalist. Rivas had visited a beauty parlour where she had her hair and nails done in preparation for a press conference later that day. On her way home, she was hit and killed by a white Datsun on Avenida Chapultepec.
During his fifty-year career as a photojournalist, Metinides never once left Mexico. He has won numerous awards and his work has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Photographers' Gallery in London.
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Enrique Metinides (Mexican, b.1934)
MEXICO CITY, APRIL 29, 1979
Inkjet colour print, 1979/2015, signed and numbered 11/15 verso, accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the artist’s studio, on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta 315g paper
image 35.5 x 52cm, framed
At the age of ten, Enrique Metinides was given a brownie box camera by his father. The Brownie, launched in 1900, was a very basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on 117 roll film. Taking to the streets of the San Cosme neighbourhood of Mexico City where he lived, he began following grisly crime scenes: car crashes, street stabbings, shootings, suicides and murders.
Back then it was still possible for a photographer to approach the scene of an accident or crime. Metinides photographed his first dead body and published his first photograph when he was only twelve years old.
This work here, along with its certificate of authenticity, captured a tragic scene by Metinides; that of Adela Legarreta Rivas, a Mexican journalist. Rivas had visited a beauty parlour where she had her hair and nails done in preparation for a press conference later that day. On her way home, she was hit and killed by a white Datsun on Avenida Chapultepec.
During his fifty-year career as a photojournalist, Metinides never once left Mexico. He has won numerous awards and his work has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Photographers' Gallery in London.
MEXICO CITY, APRIL 29, 1979
Inkjet colour print, 1979/2015, signed and numbered 11/15 verso, accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the artist’s studio, on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta 315g paper
image 35.5 x 52cm, framed
At the age of ten, Enrique Metinides was given a brownie box camera by his father. The Brownie, launched in 1900, was a very basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on 117 roll film. Taking to the streets of the San Cosme neighbourhood of Mexico City where he lived, he began following grisly crime scenes: car crashes, street stabbings, shootings, suicides and murders.
Back then it was still possible for a photographer to approach the scene of an accident or crime. Metinides photographed his first dead body and published his first photograph when he was only twelve years old.
This work here, along with its certificate of authenticity, captured a tragic scene by Metinides; that of Adela Legarreta Rivas, a Mexican journalist. Rivas had visited a beauty parlour where she had her hair and nails done in preparation for a press conference later that day. On her way home, she was hit and killed by a white Datsun on Avenida Chapultepec.
During his fifty-year career as a photojournalist, Metinides never once left Mexico. He has won numerous awards and his work has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Photographers' Gallery in London.
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