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Product Identifiers

PublisherpowerHouse Books

ISBN-101576873684

ISBN-139781576873687

eBay Product ID (ePID)59059725

Product Key Features

Book TitleEnanitos Toreros

Number of Pages132 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSubjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, People with Disabilities, Mexico, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year2008

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Social Science, Photography

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight42.8 Oz

Item Length11.3 in

Item Width9.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-942940

Dewey Edition22

Photographed byCorona, Livia

Dewey Decimal791.8/2092272

SynopsisFor the past 8 years photographer Livia Corona has documented the Enanitos Toreros, troupes of little people performing as bullfighters. She toured and lived with them throughout Mexico and migrant farming communities in the US. A performance combines musical burlesque, lip-sync and bloodless bullfights. Enanitos Toreros present a bona fide family show, understood by their loyal audience as a legitimate performance. This perspective makes this story extraordinary, refreshing, powerful and unexpected., For the past 8 years photographer Livia Corona has documented the Enanitos Toreros, troupes of little people performing as bullfighters. Popular throughout Mexico, Enanitos Toreros present a bona fide family show., For the past 8 years, photographer Livia Corona has documented the "Enanitos Toreros," troupes of little people performing as bullfighters. She toured and lived with them throughout Mexico and migrant farming communities in the US, often traveling with 12 to 14 people in a single van. The cars blared out a tailored audiotape advertisement: "This evening, in your town, the "Enanitos Toreros" have arrived with a show that will kill you. But kill you with laughter." Upon meeting a female bullfighter, Corona was invited to join their tour as their photographer, in exchange for promotional images. Attracted to their life and determination, a friendship developed between Corona and the bullfighters, who narrated their frank opinions on their lives and profession. "The bull charges at you and does not look to see if you are tall, short, skinny, or fat," says one bullfighter. "If you do not know how to bullfight, they will knock you out, and if you aren't careful you can get killed. But we never kill the bull. I like this, I just wish we got paid better." Another performer explains, "Personally this has helped me a lot. I enjoy the exchange with the audience, because people get curious about you and want to know you--they value you as a performer. When I walk on the street people come up to me and greet me." "Enanitos Toreros" is a Mexican cultural tradition dating back decades to its beginnings in Spain. In "Enanitos Toreros," a series of photographs and interviews depict the bullfights, the families, the spectators, and the everyday life of this community of artists. The images share an intimate, parallel gaze between Corona and her subjects, and present a tough and arresting defiance that contests the stereotypical assumptions towards a community often bound by rejection and ridicule.

LC Classification NumberPN2314