Juan Guzmán's City Chronicle: Where There's No Space for a Pin, There's Room for Two Cabs

Inauguración:
22 de octubre, 12:00 h

Clausura:
29 de noviembre

Colección Fotográfica de Fundación Televisa

Curador:
Alfonso Morales Carrillo

Galería Abierta de las Rejas de Chapultepec
Paseo de la Reforma s/n, Bosque de Chapultepec, del. Miguel Hidalgo
Distrito Federal

Lunes a domingo, las 24 h

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Juan Guzmán (Hans Gutmann) arrived in Mexico in 1939 as part of a group of Spanish refugees. By the end of that year he had joined the community of Mexico’s photojournalists, and he remained active in this medium for the next thirty years. During this time he worked as a correspondent for the Time Life company, and he published photographs and articles in Novedades, Así, Hoy, Mañana, Sucesos para todos, Tiempo and Life en español. In his reports, Guzmán chronicled the many transformations of a country subjected to the drives, influences and glittering hopes of modernity.

The capital of Mexico City, the great stage for the coexistence of the traditional and the avant-garde, was the subject of many of Guzmán’s photographic adventures before his death in 1982. The title for this show comes from an article published in Mañana magazine in 1952, and the photographs on display belong to an archive that was donated by Guzmán’s last partner, Teresita Miranda, to the photography collection of the Fundación Televisa. | Alfonso Morales Carrillo