Ricas y Famosas
First Edition.
32cm x 23cm. Unpaginated, colour photographs. Pictorial french fold wrappers. Text is bilingual, Spanish & English, primarily photographs.
Mexican photographer Daniela Rossell’s Ricas Y Famosas (Rich and Famous, 1994-2001) was a seven year project in which she depicted members of her own class, the ruling elite. Rossell’s sexualised representations of oligarch’s dependants – mostly wives and daughters in luxury interior settings – has since become infamous and her women were viewed as images of Mexico’s “poster girls of corruption”. Her work stands in stark contrast to the traditions of Mexican photography depicting subjects in poverty through an ethnographic lens.
Minor wear to wrappers. One page near the middle of the text block has a small chunk almost torn from the fore-edge tail corner. Very Good Condition.
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