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Metinides, Enrique (Photographer) & Ziff, Trisha (Editor/Contributor) : 101 Tragedies Of Enrique Metinides: The Limited Edition

Aperture Foundation, New York City, NY, 2012

ISBN 1597112119

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 184 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. Limited Edition of 101 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition, which was published simultaneously with it. Published in a Special Collector's Edition of 500 copies, which comes with a poster-size foldout DJ, and of which only 101 copies are numbered (by the publisher) and signed (by the artist). The Special Collector's Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Aperture: Oversize-volume format. Blood-red hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Enrique Metinides. Essay by Trisha Ziff. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which folds out into a staggering collage of images, and with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. The foldout DJ is different from and superior to the regular trade edition. Presents Enrique Metinides' "101 Tragedies". Powerful images of disaster, personally selected by him. "101 key images from his life photographing crime scenes and accidents in Mexico for local newspapers and the 'nota roja' crime press ('red pages', for their bloody content). Alongside each image, extended Captions give his account of the situation depicted, revealing much about himself in the process" (Publisher's blurb). A major retrospective, launched at Recontres d'Arles in July 2011, toured Europe and the Americas in 2012 and 2013. Enrique Metinides appeared in the exhibitions via Skype, including the one in New York City held in February 2013, because he superstitiously refuses to travel: Many of the disasters he has photographed are car crashes that occurred during travel. Metinides has lived all his life in Mexico City, but even within his sprawling city, he does not commute. He walks, the ultimate "street photographer". The work of Weegee, who photographed New York City's seamy and violent underworld, and Mell Kilpatrick, who photographed the violent car crashes and crimes on California's highways, quickly come to mind. What sets Metinides' work apart from these great photographers is its "subjective" character (as opposed to "objective", that is, voyeuristic) : Again and again, Metinides reminds us that this is about him and his neurotic obsessions. He implicates and involves himself in every photograph of unmitigated horror and violence, thereby restoring the human scale of catastrophe. An absolute "must-have" title for Enrique Metinides collectors. This copy is one of the Special Collector's Edition, indicated/serial-numbered as such. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the front cover by Enrique Metinides. This title is a modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Special Collector's Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Metinides does not do public signings, and this is the only edition he signed by special arrangement with Aperture, which sold its last remaining copies of the Special Collector's Edition at $350 and more. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 101 plates. One of the greatest photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 1597112119.

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