Enrique Metinides

Mexican | 1934 - 2022

Enrique Metinides was a Mexican photographer who was born in 1934. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Hall Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg have featured Enrique Metinides's work in the past.Enrique Metinides's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 310 USD to 6,435 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2009 the record price for this artist at auction is 6,435 USD for Close-up of Blond Woman Rolled and Impacted into a Pole in Chapultepec Avenue, City of Mexico, sold at Tajan in 2013. Enrique Metinides has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for AnOther in September 2021. The artist died in 2022.

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Los Juguetes ,2012

By Enrique Metinides

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Choque en el metro ,1975

By Enrique Metinides

Accidente de un autob煤s, Estado de M茅xico - Enrique Metinides

Accidente de un autobús, Estado de México ,1972

By Enrique Metinides

Choque en la colonia guerrero - Enrique Metinides

Choque en la colonia guerrero ,1958

By Enrique Metinides

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Los Juguetes ,2012

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Untitled (Accidente de tren, Ecatepec, Estado de Mexico - Enrique Metinides

Untitled (Accidente de tren, Ecatepec, Estado de Mexico ,2015

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Untitled (Accidente de tren, Ecatepec, Estado de Mexico) ,1982

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Untitled (Tren de pasajeros descarrilado en la carretera, México-Toluca) - Enrique Metinides

Untitled (Tren de pasajeros descarrilado en la carretera, México-Toluca) ,1970

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Past Exhibitions

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Hall Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg

Holle | Germany

Jun 10,2023 - Feb 04,2024

Tales of Manhattan

Anton Kern Gallery

New York | USA

Jul 08,2021 - Aug 20,2021

Noches fieras 1970 / 2017

Museo Universitario del Chopo

Santa Maria dela Ribera | Mexico City | Mexico

Sep 20,2018 - Feb 17,2019

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Articles

AnOther 08/09/2021

As Photo London 2021 commences, we share our highlights from the photography fair.

The Guardian 26/08/2020

Enrique Metinides was the greatest photographer of car crashes, crime scenes and disasters for Mexico鈥檚 sensational nota roja newspapers. He describes his life in the company of death, and why he collects emergency service toys

The Guardian 28/09/2016

A human crib sheet, Bacon鈥檚 model wrestlers, and crime scenes real and imagined 鈥� a new show at the Michael Hoppen gallery examines documentary photography in all its complexity.

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鈥� ..Accompanying the images are Metinides鈥檚 own accounts of the characters and life of the streets, the sadness of families, the criminals, and the heroism of emergency workers鈥攚hich reveal much about himself... 鈥�
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Aperture Foundation

鈥� ..Selected photographs are also paired with their original newsprint tearsheets, collected by Metinides... 鈥�
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Aperture Foundation

鈥� ..Though Metinides鈥檚 photographs have been exhibited and published internationally, this is the first selection of images chosen by the photographer himself, and which offers his own account of his life鈥檚... 鈥�
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Aperture Foundation

鈥� ..A limited鈥恊dition portfolio featuring Metinides鈥檚 latest photographs is available through Aperture... 鈥�
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Aperture Foundation