Enrique Metinides
Adela Legarreta Rivas is Struck by a White Datsun on Avenida Chapultepec, Mexico City
1979
Chromogenic print
Not on view
Since the late 1940s Metinides has worked for the Mexican popular press, mainly tabloids and newspapers, photographing what has become known as the nota roja (bloody news) section. His subjects, all photographed around his native Mexico City, include violent and tragic events: car accidents, airplane crashes, murders, suicides, and natural disasters. Metinides's work resembles scenes from the movies. In this photograph, the protagonist, Adela Legarreta Rivas, has been struck by a car on Avenida Chapultepec. The artist has captured her unfortunate fate with cold objectivity, depicting her lifeless body resting on a fallen lamppost.
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, November 21, 2007–February 25, 2008.
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