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San Cristobal Stable Horse Pool and House Planned by Luis Barragan Mexico City Mexico 1976
Presented by Pierre Brahm 2015
adults
agricultural
animals: mammals
architecture
Barragán, Luis
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
colour
countries and continents
courtyard
documentary
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
horse
house
man
Mexico
Mexico City, Cuadra San Cristóbal, San Cristobal Stable
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pool
residential
stable
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
<p><span>San Cristobal Stable, Horse Pool and House, Planned by Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico, 1976 </span>1976, printed 2014, is a colour photograph by the Swiss photographer René Burri. It shows a man leading a horse around a courtyard in a stable complex, at the centre of which is a large shallow pool. Taken from one corner of the courtyard, the left-hand side of the image is dominated by the plain surface of a red wall, while the wall in the opposite corner, against which the man and horse group are walking, is captured in a vivid pink against the blues of the sky and pool. The stables depicted are in the Cuadra San Cristóbal, designed and built in 1968 by the Mexican modernist architect Luis Barragán.</p>
paper print photograph c-print
San Cristobal Stable, Horse Pool and House, Planned by Luis Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico, 1976
image: 345 × 511 mm
Presented by Pierre Brahm 2015
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<i>San Cristobal Stable, Horse Pool and House, Planned by Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico, 1976 </i>1976, printed 2014, is a colour photograph by the Swiss photographer René Burri. It shows a man leading a horse around a courtyard in a stable complex, at the centre of which is a large shallow pool. Taken from one corner of the courtyard, the left-hand side of the image is dominated by the plain surface of a red wall, while the wall in the opposite corner, against which the man and horse group are walking, is captured in a vivid pink against the blues of the sky and pool. The stables depicted are in the Cuadra San Cristóbal, designed and built in 1968 by the Mexican modernist architect Luis Barragán. </p>
<p>This image is part of a portfolio of twenty-seven prints (Tate <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/burri-inauguration-of-the-chapel-of-notre-dame-du-haut-france-1955-p14301" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P14301</span></a>–<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/burri-poster-of-che-guevara-1993-p14327" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P14327</span></a>), selected and compiled by Burri as a cohesive group shortly before his death in 2014. The selection spans his sixty-year career and includes a number of his best known black and white works, as well as a group of lesser-known colour works. The portfolio was printed by Burri in 2014 and this copy is number three in an edition of five plus one artist’s proof. It contains fourteen black and white gelatin silver prints and thirteen colour C-prints, highlighting Burri’s diverse use of light and shadow alongside his experimental use of colour. Although predominantly known for shooting in black and white, Burri often travelled with two cameras, switching between them to capture images in both colour and greyscale. This was a progressive approach at the time, when colour photography was generally only used in advertising or for commercial practices. Burri revisited his archive of colour images later in his career and published the monograph <i>René Burri: Impossible Reminiscences</i> in 2013 as a decisive examination of this work.</p>
<p>Burri is most famous for his work as a member of the photojournalism agency Magnum Photos and the portfolio includes images produced in this context from projects in Brazil, Egypt, Lebanon, East Germany, China and South Korea, as well as an iconic image of Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara taken in Havana in 1963. The young Burri was introduced to Magnum by fellow Swiss photographer Werner Bischof and began working with the agency first as an associate in 1955, before becoming a full member in 1959. His extensive career encompassed a wide variety of photographic practices, including documentary, reportage, street photography and the photo-essay, as well as portraiture, architecture and landscape. He often worked on press assignments and personal projects simultaneously, building a varied portfolio of work in both black and white and colour. Burri’s use of both bird’s eye and worm’s eye views and his attention to the effects of light and shadow created by architectural forms are reminiscent of techniques used by modernist photographers in the early twentieth century.</p>
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<b>Further reading</b>
<br/>Hans-Michael Koetzle, <i>René Burri Photographs</i>, London 2003.<br/>Hans-Michael Koetzle, <i>René Burri: Impossible Reminiscences</i>, London 2013.</p>
<p>Shoair Mavlian<br/>January 2015<br/>Arthur Goodwin<br/>October 2018</p>
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adults agricultural animals: mammals architecture Barragán, Luis cities, towns, villages (non-UK) colour countries and continents courtyard documentary emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities horse house man Mexico Mexico City, Cuadra San Cristóbal, San Cristobal Stable modernist named individuals people periods and styles photographic places pool residential stable townscapes / man-made features water: inland