Object Details
Artist
Antonio Reynoso
Date
ca. 1955
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image / primary support: 6 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (16.5 × 24.4 cm)
Secondary support: 14 × 18 1/4 inches (35.6 × 46.4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired through the Class of 1962 Fund for Photography
Object
Number
2022.015.004
Antonio Reynoso was an artistic polymath who studied with some of the greatest teachers in each of h(…)
Antonio Reynoso was an artistic polymath who studied with some of the greatest teachers in each of his fields of interest, including the photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo at the Academia de San Carlos in the early 1940s. Like many Mexican art photographers, including Álvarez Bravo, he supported himself through cinematography. He ultimately had a major impact on film in his country; he is recognized as part of a generation that transformed Mexican cinema from the 1940s–70s.
Reynoso’s photographs often have a surreal or enigmatic and indeed cinematic quality. This photograph presents a scene that seems part of a larger narrative but whose meaning is unclear. What is compelling the crowd’s attention upward, and what happens next, is up to us to imagine.
