RICAS Y FAMOSAS
Daniela Rossell
Daniela Rossell [photographs] and Barry Schwabsky [text]: RICAS Y FAMOSAS. Madrid: Turner Publicaciones, 2002. First edition. Text in Spanish and English except for Rossell's biography on the jacket flap. A very good soft cover book with thick printed french folded wrappers and minor shelf wear including slight rubbing. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8.75 x 12.5 soft cover book with 176 pages and 85 color illustrations. Included in Parr and Badger: THE PHOTOBOOK, A HISTORY Volume Two [page 321].
From the publisher: See the super-rich in their vast kitsch palaces, modeling their latest designer wardrobes, showing off their art collections, petting their stuffed lions, posing on gilded, gleaming furniture, and tanning along the edges of lush indoor swimming pools. This is the private lifestyle of Mexican millionaires, and it is photographer Daniela Rossell's outrageous twist on what is historically understood as Mexican documentary photography. Rather than documenting the lifestyles of indigenous peoples, the urban poor, or exotic village scenes-as so many of her colleagues have done and continue to do-she has chosen to explore the habitat, customs, and traditions of the tiniest minority in Mexico: the ultra-rich.
Daniela Rossell was born in Mexico City in 1973. While studying figure drawing and paintings at the National School of Visual Arts in Mexico City, she worked independantly with an automatic camera. In 1997, Rossell was included in a group show at the Museo del Barrio in New York; the next year she had her first solo exhibition at Greene Naftali. Since then, her work has appeared at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Berkley Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and, most recently, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.