194:. Once, when recalling his arrival to the scene of an airplane crash he stated that only after he shot his three rolls of film did he go to help with the rescue. However, the two's contents, styles, and contexts are different. What made Metinides' work distinct and popular was not so much the themes but rather the inclusion of the faces of aggressors, corpses, other victims, emergency workers, and onlookers for emotional impact. One of Metinides' most notable images is from 1979, depicting journalist
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129:(12 February 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Mexican photographer. He began working with photography as a child when his father gave him a camera. Soon he began taking photos imitating popular action movies and car crashes near his father's restaurant. He published his first photo in a newspaper when he was twelve and at age thirteen, became an unpaid assistant at
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He retired in 1997 after being let go by La Prensa and no longer took photos of live crime or disaster scenes. However he had a collection of more than 4,000 miniature ambulances, fire trucks, and figures of firemen and medics, which he has photographed in arrangements depicting emergency scenes. He
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When he was ten years old, his father gave him a brownie box camera. Soon after, he began taking pictures of car accidents on the streets of the San Cosme neighborhood of Mexico City where he lived. He expanded this to opportunities found hanging around the police station, going to the morgue and
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Metinides' aesthetics are derived from popular film of his era, especially black-and-white action movies related to police and gangsters. His first images as a child were based on these movies as well as the car crashes that frequently occurred in front of his father's restaurant. This movie
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From 2011 to 2013, a collection of 101 photographs selected by the photographer toured Europe and the
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Metinides worked as a crime photographer from 1948 to his forced retirement in 1997, taking thousands of images and following hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City such as crime scenes, car crashes, and natural catastrophes. His work was principally published in the
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is a catalogue of death and suffering in all its random, often absurd everydayness. But it is more than that. It is a catalogue of intrusion. It makes voyeurs of us all, particularly when shown in a gallery context."
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