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Gelatin silver print · 1966
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Rescate de un Automovil Accidentado
1966 · Gelatin silver print
Image: 20.3 x 25.8 cm (8 x 10 3/16 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Enrique Metinides
Mexican, 1934–2022
WA-00003351
Mexico City, Mexico
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Enrique Metinides photographed crime scenes, car crashes, and urban catastrophe in Mexico City for over five decades, primarily as a staff photographer at the tabloid La Prensa, which he joined at age thirteen. His images, composed with a cinematic sensibility rooted in an early obsession with action films, transform forensic documentation into pictures of startling formal clarity and emotional weight. Bodies on pavement, wreckage on highways, and crowds of onlookers are framed with the precision of a narrative filmmaker, collapsing the distance between photojournalism and genre cinema. Since his 1997 retirement, the photographs have circulated widely in galleries across Mexico, the United States, and Europe.
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