Nota roja
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Nota roja is a journalism genre popular in Mexico. While similar to more general sensationalist or yellow journalism, the nota roja focuses almost exclusively on stories related to physical violence r
Nota roja sheet with illustration by José Guadalupe Posada
José Guadalupe Posada
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José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar was a Mexican political printmaker who used relief printing to produce popular illustrations. His work has influenced numerous Latin American artists and cartoonists beca
Nota roja
…catedral!” (Sensational and terrible news! A young woman who has thrown herself from the tower of the cathedral!) The image in this sheet is attributed to José Guadalupe Posada. The image shows a woman falling from the tower, but her dress is arranged as it would be normally, not as it would be from the physics of falling. The…
JOSÉ GUADALUPE POSADA
Calavera oaxaqueña, 1903, one of his many broadsheets.
Posada's La Calavera Catrina.
Reproduction of the restored Gran calavera eléctrica (Grand electric skull), by Posada 1900–1913