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From 1948 until his retirement in 1979, the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides forcibly taken thousands of photos and hundreds of stories from Mexico City. And what images and stories of the cars and the train derailment will be a bi-plane crashed on the roof, stabbings and shootings on the street in the park, apartments and parks, fire, explosions, accidents, suicide, murder, murder. Metinides photographed his body for the first time at the age of 12 A year later he became an assistant photographer, crime does not pay the Mexican newspaper La Prensa, and note their pictures appeared on the red - the red, or more colloquially, new blood, the tabloid-seller. Now, almost 70 years, Metinides is his first exhibition in Europe. He said the type of photography on action movies and movies in black and white cops and gangsters based. Some of his early images of childhood, what he saw on the screen of the movie, while other accidents are still a restaurant from his father. The child - - Also known as El Nio will Metinides by the police go to the morgue, the transport will not hunt, but the journey of the Red Cross volunteer. Although the comparison of crime in the city WeeGee photographer, New York City are inevitable, context, content and style very different. In his own way, the images are like scenes from a movie without Metinides wide-angle lens and flash, the second emulation photojournalists who have seen the films. "The first shot was always in front of the building in which the offense was committed," he said in an interview in the exhibition catalog, "is one of the stakes cases, blood, set on the head, the body. It's a movie, but in the picture. " These photos are not cheap magazine "Photoplay." Death and disaster is true. Persist in the blood, corpses, a killer smile tinged with blood, to the surprise of the diameter of the victim is in danger, was the most famous magazine photographer Metinides in Mexico. Photo of intimacy that is not relieved, terrible and difficult to see the intensity of a firebrand British public, but overall the Central and South America. They deal with culture, it is difficult to understand. Metinides shows us not only the wounded and dead bodies and blood. It shows the crowd, the audience stunned and paralyzed, emergency kits and rubber Neckar. Indeed the city and its people, not just random, sometimes devastating, but it works. It also shows the unexplained. This does not in any way to influence Metinides photos Lack of humanity. Quite the contrary. They are full of people. In fact, the real problem for them - seems to humanity. In Metinides pictures we have seen not only pulled the body from the water after the drowning, we see that the U-boat under water, gray-balanced bottom of the pool. Withdrawn from the river or body as bait to draw the terrible end of the rope, the audience still Frisian on the head on the beach is reflected in the murky water. We see things that we believe does not appear, but it is difficult to draw our eyes. Dead woman blonde hair and bright red fingernails, broken and lying in state after it to limit by a car, his dark until death made because the paramedics, from cover to cover. Suicide by hanging, dangling "the tallest tree stand Chapultepec Park, not that her husband took their daughter to live with him and his mistress." In this case meets the most beautiful tree picture. Hung is a close detail, soft mottled light under a tree. Metinides images are often disturbing, of course, its aesthetic, or rather the other way instead of the images to get rid of them, make them more acceptable. A man is sent to the clutter on the site - the play characters who are trying illegally to the national power grid - does bear witness to Christ. However, there are paintings and sculptures of Christ on the Cross "aesthetically" too? Photo series two rescuers trying to reach and offers a portal of suicide in the first stage (her desire to "know what death is" to save)