Esko Männikkö - MEXAS - 1999

PU: Hasselblad Center, Svezia e Oulu, Finlandia.
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Copertina blu in pelle artificiale con lastra a quattro colori incisa a rilievo sulla copertina e il titolo timbrato in argento sulla copertina e sul dorso; nessuna sovraccoperta come indicato.
Photographs by Esko Männikkö. Essays by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Gary Michael Dault. Designed by Petri Kuokka / Aarnipaja Ky. 80 pp., with 48 four-color plates printed on buff matte paper in Finland by Kaleva Kustannus Oy. 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."