As a photographer of accidents, disasters and tragedies, Enrique Metinides has spent more than fifty years taking pictures of every tragedy imaginable in Mexico City. His work documents a macabre history of the city and its deterioration from the relatively peaceful and naive capital of the fifties to the schizophrenic megalopolis of the twenty first century. His camera not only portrays tragedy and its direct relation to negligence, corruption and urban misery, but also the spectacle of the tragedy, in which masses are crowded in peculiar fashion.
 
Published to coincide with his exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery.
 
Publication date - 2003 
Publisher - Ridinghouse
Format - Hardcover
Dimensions - 27.4cm x 24.8cm
Pages - 134
Condition - Good. Marks to the covers and minor yellowing to edges of pages.