Cucurrucucú /
Mexican-based, Spanish-born documentary photographer Christina de Middel (born 1975) offers 200 drawings of different archival news magazine photographs accompanied by lyrics of Mexican ranchera songs. A pastiche of forms, Cucurrucucú invites us to reexamine the violence concealed beneath accepted c...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | Spanish English |
| Language Notes: | Text in Spanish and English. |
| Published: |
Barcelona, Spain :
RM,
[2016]
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| Summary: | Mexican-based, Spanish-born documentary photographer Christina de Middel (born 1975) offers 200 drawings of different archival news magazine photographs accompanied by lyrics of Mexican ranchera songs. A pastiche of forms, Cucurrucucú invites us to reexamine the violence concealed beneath accepted codes, whether in photojournalism or folk music. |
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| Item Description: | Includes essay: Esa suerte que tiene olor a muerte (= That fate that smells like death) by Cuauhtémoc Medina. Accompanying booklet contains photographs from Mexican crime tabloids, which inspired the drawings in the book. "Photographs: Images acquired in La Lagunilla flea market in Mexico City, 2015"--Colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9788416282654 841628265X |