Tag: Enrique Metinides

  • ENRIQUE METINIDES: "Enrique Metinides" (2007)

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    Link: Visitors to Enrique Metinides’s recent (2007) show at Anton Kern Gallery were greeted by a sign warning, “Due to gruesome content parental discretion is advised.” … Metinides was Mexico’s most famous and finest crime photographer, a man who spent fifty years documenting violence and death for the millions who follow la nota roja, or…

  • Enrique Metinides, criminal photographs in Mexico City – The Eye of Photography

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    Enrique Metinides, criminal photographs in Mexico City From 1948 until his forced retirement in 1979, the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides took thousands of images and followed hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City. And what images and stories they were: car wrecks and train derailments, a bi-plane crashed on to a roof, street stabbings…

  • Book Review: 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides

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    Link: photo-eye | BLOG: Book Review: 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides To Norteamericanos encountering the work of Metinides for the first time, “The Mexican Weegee” seems a natural epithet.

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    Link: Enrique Metinides: 101 Tragedies | Le Journal de la Photographie The book opens with a photograph of a crashed glider sticking vertically out of a field, with about fifty people looking agape behind the two long wings that hold the plane in this dramatic position. It continues with an incessant parade of twisted metal,…

  • INTERVIEW: “Interview with Enrique Metinides” (2006)

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    AMERICAN SUBURB X Although he hasn’t published a photograph in almost fifteen years, Metinides can safely be called the most prolific news photographer of his generation. Between 1946, when he was barely twelve years old, and 1993, when he was muscled out of his “nota roja” newspaper job, Metinides was a tenacious documenter of death…

  • Six contemporary Mexican photographers

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    In the series entitled Republic, the Rencontres is presenting six contemporary Mexican photographers: Enrique Metinides, Maya Goded, Dulce Pinzon, Daniela Russell, Inaki Bonillas and Fernando Montiel Klint.

  • Enrique Metinides, Mexico’s Weegee

    Enrique Metinides, Mexico’s Weegee

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/06/enrique-metinides-mexicos-weegee/ I guess part of me naturally felt that I should be shocked or horrified by the subject matter that Metinides photographed—for almost fifty years during his career as a tabloid journalist he captured murders and car crashes, criminals and catastrophes. However,…

  • Pulp Nonfiction, Ripped From the Tabloids

    Pulp Nonfiction, Ripped From the Tabloids

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    NYT: Enrique Metinides photographed his first dead body before he was 12. It was as if he had caught a fever, because after that he couldn’t stop. For years while he slept he kept his radio in Mexico City tuned to emergency stations so that he could be awakened by the latest news of disaster.…