Enrique Metinides |
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Vanaf 1948 tot zijn gedwongen |
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: car wrecks and train derailments, a byplane crashed onto a roof, street stabbings, and shootings in the park, apartments and petrol stations set alight, earthquakes, accidental explosions, suicides, murder. In their way, Metinides photos are like scenes from unmade movies, using a wide-angle lens and daylight flash, the latter in emulation of news photographers he’d seen in the movies. “My first photograph was always the facade of the building where the crime was being committed,” he says “then one of the entrance, the cartridge case, the blood, the overturned drawer, the corpse. That’s a film but in still photos.”
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