Miguel Calderón (English Edition) Mexico City: Turner / A&R, 2007 

Hardcover 
1,000 copies 
244 pp , 216 x 170 mm “When my grandfather died, the only thing he left me was a box with these photos.” In the 255 photographs of this photobook, a smiling gentleman appears, always accompanied by one or more women. The scenes take place during the 1970s and 1980s in Acapulco. The photographers were social reporters and nightclub and restaurant photographers. The smiling gentleman kept these photos as mementos, along with newspaper clippings, in the box of a bottle of Scotch whisky. The protagonist of the thousand photos in the box was an industrialist who one day retired and dedicated the rest of his life to full-time. “He used to tell me that he only started living after the age of forty,” recalls the grandson, who believes that “with these photos, my grandfather was trying to tell me: whatever you do, take it to the limit.” Design: Vanessa Enríquez