Esko Männikkö - MEXAS - 1999

PU: Hasselblad Center, Ruotsi ja Oulu, Suomi.
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Siniset keinonahkakannet, kohokuvioitu, kiinnitetty nelivärileike kansiin ja nimi hopealla kannessa sekä selässä; ei pölynyljää julkaisun mukaan.
Photographs by Esko Männikkö. Essays by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Gary Michael Dault. Designed by Petri Kuokka / Aarnipaja Ky. 80 pp., with 48 nelivärilevyä tulostettu buff-mattapaperille Suomessa Kaleva Kustannus Oy:n toimesta. New. A Mint copy.
From the essay by Maaretta Jaukkuri: "Texas offered Männnikkö visual plenitude and colourful mixtures of cultural traditions, as well as an encounter with the survival strategies that the Mexican population have created around themselves. In San Antonio and its surroundings, he met with a multitude of practices aimed at overcoming the tensions and boredom of daily toil and routine, with ingenious ways of creating possibilities for escaping into other worlds where things would look brighter, more colourful and more joyful. The private universes that we all in different ways create around us are a source of endless wonder and admiration in Männikkö's art."