Tomorrow, Tuesday at 7 p.m., the Instituto Cultural de México (Carrera de San Jerónimo, 46) will inaugurate the exhibition La crónica citadina de Juan Guzmán: Donde no cabe un alfiler, bien cabe dos ruleteros (The Urban Chronicle of Photographer Juan Guzmán. Where a pin does not fit well, two rulebars).
The exhibition, curated by Alfonso Morales, presents a selection of pieces by photographer Juan Guzman (Hans Gutmann) who arrived in Mexico in 1939 and documented with his camera the intense political, economic, social and cultural changes that Mexico City experienced in the second half of the 20th century.
The Mexican capital, a great scene in which tensions between traditional and avant-garde were confronted, was the subject of many photographic works by Juan Guzmán, who died in this city in 1982. As a graphic chronicler of the city, his images document changes in the architectural landscape (the vertical and horizontal growth of the city); the chaos and catastrophes typical of large cities; urban characters and trades of yesteryear; the poor neighborhoods and street shows; the marquees, advertisements and fashion; national holidays and sports, as well as the political, cultural, and artistic life of the metropolis.
The title of this exhibition, Where a pin does not fit well, two rulebars, comes from a report published in the magazine Mañana in 1952 and the images that make it up from the archive that, by decision of Teresita Miranda, Guzmán’s last partner, was integrated into the photographic collection of Fundación Televisa.