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It’s as though tragedy followed him around. Muray’s portraits of Kahlo have a unique and intimate perspective that only a friend or lover could share. 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.
ENRIQUE METINIDES (1934
Primer plano de mujer rubia arrollada e impactada contra poste, Av.
Chapultepec y calle Monterrey, 29 de abril de 1979, 1979
Fotografía. Mark loved Mexico and taught photography in Oaxaca annually for over a decade. Beautifully timed and framed, Ramos captures street vendors amid their vibrant performance, observed by onlookers as if they were actors and their audience, thus conveying perfectly the frenetic and lively energy of his home city.
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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.
Flor Garduno – Mexican Woman holding bound Iguanas, 1987
Flor Garduno’s arresting portrait of a young woman holding dead and bound iguanas captures a strange and brutal moment of beauty where the relationship between mankind and beast is called into question. This striking image reinvents the typical poster-image of the hammer and the sickle with a Mexican twist.
© Nickolas Muray
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He photographed his first dead body before he was 12, a feat that earned him a nickname El Niño – the Kid – for his precocity. Flor Garduno comes from a long tradition of post-revolutionary Mexican female photographers who helped reinvent the countries’ artistic reputation across the world.
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A typically dynamic image his depiction of a young girl selling candy outside a historic church as members of a wedding party begin to leave is beautifully timed and framed, demonstrating the impressive eye for color, light, tone, and composition that defines all of his work.
© Tina Modotti
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Enrique Metinides – The death of Adela Legarreta Rivas, 1979
Adela Legarreta Rivas is struck by a white Datsun on Avenida Chapultepec, Mexico City, 29 April 1979
Known as the ‘Mexican Weegee’, Enrique Metinides was always the first at the scene of the crime or disaster. Inspired by the morbid curiosity that inhabits us all, Metinides made his name by photographing these daily events in a series called the “101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides.” In perhaps what is one of his most famous photos, an image that stands out from his other work for its use of color, a woman lies dead in the foreground after having been struck by a car on one of the roads of Mexico city.
Jonathan Jasberg – “Leaving Santo Domingo”. Irene Baque – “Oaxacan bows and ruffles”
This wonderful image by Irene Baque depicts a group of girls adorned in traditional festive dresses within the village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, and was selected as a finalist of our 2023 Color Award by judge Greg Girard.
Oaxaca, México 2023
One of our editorial team’s favorite rising street photographers, Jonathan Jasberg, is a self-proclaimed vagabond, who travels the globe, skillfully capturing everyday life with acumen and artistry. In the mesoamerican and Aztec religion, Iguanas have many symbolic qualities, but they are also captured and eaten in parts of the country.
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.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo – Fireworks in the Barrio del Niño, 1990
Often remembered as Mexico’s most celebrated fine art photographer, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, captured the history of the country’s rapidly evolving geopolitical atmosphere. In perhaps one of the most famous portraits of Kahlo, she holds Muray’s gaze, standing confidently and powerfully in front of a plain white background, arms folded but ever fierce and questioning, the artist as art.
© Daniel Ramos
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Shedding light on Kahlo’s private life, Muray produced some of the most memorable and striking images of the surrealist artist. Tina Modotti – Mexican Sombrero with hammer and sickle, 1927
Tina Modotti, an Italian photographer who made some of her most famous work in Mexico between 1923 and 1930, was also a political activist during the Mexican revolution.