101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides
Photographs by Enrique Metinides

101 Tragedies brings together a collection of photographs and narratives by the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides, who has captured tragedies and catastrophes on the streets of Mexico City for several decades. His work, cinematic at times and intimate at others, presents short narratives—single-frame movies, so to speak. Metinides remembers everything: the characters, the families, and the sadness, as much as the heroism of the emergency workers and the “audience” of onlookers relieved to be watching, not participating in the dramas he captures. His images are distinct from sensationalism; his photographs, while powerful, are often filled with their own humanity, with a sense of awareness of both accident and cultural context. 101 Tragedies has little to do with the formulaic melodrama of the press and the representation of contemporary Mexico in the media. Instead it is unique, guided by Metinides’s own reflections on a lifetime’s work.

Contents:
The exhibition consists of 120 photographs at 11 x 14 in., 16 x 20 in., 20 x 24 in., and 24 x 30 in.

Book:
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