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One Picture Book #97: Las Trocas Angelinas, con sus Mercancía (book + print)

by Javier Carrillo

Photographs: Javier Carrillo

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

16 pages

Pictures: 6 four-color plates

Year: July 2017

ISBN: 978-1-59005-471-0

Price: 45 €

Comments: Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4, 1 signed original photograph by Javier Carrillo

For such a small book, Las Trocas Angelinas, con sus Mercancía (The Angelinos' Trucks with their Cargo) speaks volumes. Javier Carrillo created a suite of 6 “suicide prints” — a type of linoleum print considered to be the single most difficult form of multicolor printing — each featuring what is a common sight across this country and many others: a small, well-worn pickup truck filled to the breaking point with tools or merchandise. In Carrillo’s prints, the pickup trucks with their humble yet priceless cargo — used wooden pallets, freshly-picked oranges, lawn mowing equipment — become almost heroic in their stoicism, and one can’t help but draw a comparison between them and the burros that they have replaced. The original, signed photograph included with each copy of the book is one of the snapshots Carrillo made as a “sketch” for his finished studio prints.

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One Picture Book #97: Las Trocas Angelinas, con sus Mercancía (book + print)

by Javier Carrillo

Photographs: Javier Carrillo

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

16 pages

Pictures: 6 four-color plates

Year: July 2017

ISBN: 978-1-59005-471-0

Price: 45 €

Comments: Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4, 1 signed original photograph by Javier Carrillo

For such a small book, Las Trocas Angelinas, con sus Mercancía (The Angelinos' Trucks with their Cargo) speaks volumes. Javier Carrillo created a suite of 6 “suicide prints” — a type of linoleum print considered to be the single most difficult form of multicolor printing — each featuring what is a common sight across this country and many others: a small, well-worn pickup truck filled to the breaking point with tools or merchandise. In Carrillo’s prints, the pickup trucks with their humble yet priceless cargo — used wooden pallets, freshly-picked oranges, lawn mowing equipment — become almost heroic in their stoicism, and one can’t help but draw a comparison between them and the burros that they have replaced. The original, signed photograph included with each copy of the book is one of the snapshots Carrillo made as a “sketch” for his finished studio prints.

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