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Posted on: November 7th, 2005
Filed Under: [ Art y Culture ] [ Hispanic News ]
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“In a bookstore in the funky California beach town of Venice, larger-than-life-sized color photographs of masked Mexican wrestlers are the focal point of a very different art exhibit.
Malcolm Venville photographed about 150 “Lucha Libre” wrestlers for an upcoming book. Translated literally, “lucha libre” means “free fighting.” To many Latinos, it’s professional wrestling, vaudeville, a venerable cinema genre and the Bushido code of the Japanese Samurai all wrapped up in one campy and crowd-pleasing spectacle.”
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