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Nacho LopezLa Ciudad de Mexico III

Nacho Lopez – La Ciudad de Mexico III

Photographs: Nacho Lopez

Text: Martin Luis Guzman, Salvador Novo & Agustin Yanez

Publisher: Artes de Mexico

Pictures: 126

Year: 1964

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Photographer Nacho López was Mexico's Eugene Smith, fusing social commitment with searing imagery to dramatize the plight of the helpless, the poor, and the marginalized in the pages of glossy illustrated magazines. Even today, López's photographs forcefully belie the picturesque exoticism that is invariably presented as the essence of Mexico."--University of Minnesota Press "...to describe [this] book's conventional structure hardly does justice to the humanity of Lopez's vision. Like Joan van der Keuken's Paris, Lopez's Mexico City is a dark, uneasy place with an air of barely contained violence hanging over the crowded streets. Lopez does not spare us the signs of social injustice and his sympathies are clearly with the urban poor." Parr & Badger

images of the Mexican capital, printed in rich gravure, and comprising one of the great city books in the tradition of William Klein, published as double issue - See more at: https://www.harpersbooks.com/pages/books/18908/nacho-lopez/la-ciudad-de-mexico-iii#sthash.pMK5T3uX.dpuf
Softcover, 325 x 235 mm. First edition, 1964. Gravure printing. Text in spanish. A few wears on covers but a very fresh copy with reproductions well preserved. Included in The Latin American Photobook by Horacio Fernandez ; The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.2, p.103. Scarce and collectible latin-american photobook in very good condition!!!

Referenced in: The Photobook: A History - Volume II

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