Metinides was born to a family of Greek immigrants in Mexico City in 1934. He published his first photo at the age of twelve, earning him the nickname El Niño (The Boy). A year later, he became an unpaid intern as a crime reporter for the tabloid La Prensa beginning a prolific five decade career in photography. He worked as a photographer from 1949 to 1979 as part of the Nota Roja (bloody news), shooting photos of crime, murder, airplane crashes and other disasters for Mexico City tabloids. Series is an attempt to examine his work from the perspective of cinematography, sequentially revealing facts that come together in a substantial way to form a common motif with continuity between the various episodes of his oeuvre.

Enrique Metinides - Series

Arts & Photography

Enrique Metinides

Photography & Video

Kominek Books

This photobook looks back to the time of the beginning, the time when everything is still open and exciting, when everything gently falls into place. It's the phase of the beginning, that forms the basis not only of a new love, but also of each new photographic project. It's a book about searching, about the curious and intuitive approach to people and their stories. About falling in love to a medium that opens insights to worlds that would otherwise stay hidden - intensive and haunting like an interminable night at the bar.

Alec Soth - Looking for Love, 1996

SOTH, Alec

With every new publication, acclaimed Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi (born 1972) reimagines the terms of both her own work and the photo book as a form, while retaining her special capacity to depict the world with a palpable delight and awe. Sheets continues this adventurous trajectory. It consists of contact sheets from a variety of Kawauchi’s previous projects, re-edited here as a cinematic narrative or scrapbook, with gatefolds interspersed throughout to punctuate the strongly rhythmic character created by the contact sheets’ black frames. At once emphatically ordinary and lusciously transcendent, these color images of veiny palm fronds and water droplets on lotus leaves, waterfalls, birds, butterflies, open skies, domestic activities, bleached-out beach scenes and street lamps aglow at night celebrate ephemeral luminosity and everyday epiphanies. Sequenced by Kawauchi and publisher/editor Misha Kominek, and designed by Kominek and Claudia Ott, this hardcover volume opens up a new dimension on Kawauchi’s much-admired oeuvre.

Rinko Kawauchi: Sheets

Greg Girard - JAL 76 88

GREG GIRARD

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