Product Details
Paperback
176 pages
Turner
Published 2002
Publisher's Description:
"Part Town & Country, part Playboy, the book exposes the decadent, some say depraved, lifestyles of Mexico's wealthy elite…" --The New York Times
"The images are meticulous in their documentation of the good life and the astonishing props that people choose to help them live it." --The Los Angeles Times
"Rossell offers up a stupefyingly over-the-top look at Mexico's ruling elite in their natural and not-so-natural habitats…"-W Magazine
By refusing to exoticize the weird pseudo-glamour of the Mexican aristocratic and comprador classes, instead relating to "our own" 80s-style excess and bad taste, Rossell deftly reverses the presumptions of ethnography. --Nico Israel, Artforum
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 guilded, gleaming furniture, and tanning along the edges of lush indoor swimming pools. This is the private lifestyle of Mexican millionaires, and it is photographer Daniella 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. |
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