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    howdoyoudotoday: Secuencia rescate de un suicide en la cúpula el toreo (Suicide rescue from the top of the Toreo Stadium), 1971—Enrique Metinides Also seen at MoMA! Tragic yet stunning. This series by Enrique Metinides is now on view in our Photography in Mexico exhibition. If you haven’t seen the show yet, come visit us soon—- the exhibition closes on July 8!

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    Secuencia rescate de un suicide en la cúpula el toreo (Suicide rescue from the top of the Toreo Stadium), 1971—Enrique Metinides

    Also seen at MoMA!

    Tragic yet stunning.

    This series by Enrique Metinides is now on view in our Photography in Mexico exhibition. If you haven’t seen the show yet, come visit us soon—- the exhibition closes on July 8!

    Posted on Tuesday, June 26th 2012

    Tags photography in mexico sfmoma exhibition art black and white

    Reblogged from how do you do today?

    In this video, Photography in Mexico artist Daniela Rossell uses examples from her series Ricas y Famosas (Rich and Famous) to work through her own thoughts on the problematic nature of contemporary “femininity.”

    What do you think?

    Posted on Wednesday, June 20th 2012

    Tags femininity photography photography in mexico Daniela Rossell sfmoma video youtube

    Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Umbral (Threshold), 1947; printed 1977 This uncanny, timeless, image does not behold what is inside or out, what is on this side or that, but exposes the sheer contingency of a third space that conjoins and separates simultaneously. It captures the threshold between what may be private or public, a world of destitution or happiness, of peace or violence, of hospitality or horror. Read more on OPEN SPACE

    Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Umbral (Threshold), 1947; printed 1977

    This uncanny, timeless, image does not behold what is inside or out, what is on this side or that, but exposes the sheer contingency of a third space that conjoins and separates simultaneously. It captures the threshold between what may be private or public, a world of destitution or happiness, of peace or violence, of hospitality or horror.

    Read more on OPEN SPACE

    Posted on Monday, June 18th 2012

    Tags Manuel Álvarez Bravo black and white photography in mexico photography sfmoma collection open space

    Source blog.sfmoma.org

    Two photographers focus lens on the Mexican elite in new SFMOMA exhibit

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    “Purse,” from the series Maria Elvia de Hank, 2009; Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Courtesy Yvonne Venegas)

    Two Mexican photographers, Daniela Rossell and Yvonne Venegas, have made significant strides in steering Mexican photography in a new direction - from focusing on poverty and indigenous communities into the secret world of the Mexican elite. Their work is now featured in a new exhibit, from March 10 through July 8, 2012, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), called Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser.

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    Posted on Tuesday, March 13th 2012

    Tags photography in mexico exhibition sfmoma

    Reblogged from NBC Latino