Dept. of culture

little-known facts about bullfighters

July 21, 2008  5:22 pm

The idea of “being with the band” may conjure late nights, crowded quarters, and constant travel, but photographer Livia Corona’s experiences on the road owe little to traditional lore. Her companions? The Enanitos Toreros, troupes of little-people bullfighters, with whom she trekked for eight years across Mexico and the U.S. while still an art student. “Like most people, I did not know anything about dwarfism,” the New York and Mexico City-based Corona explains in the intro to her new coffee-table book of photos and interviews from that era, “Enanitos Toreros” (powerHouse). “The issue had rarely come up in my life, and when it did it was usually presented for comic effect.” Though Corona?s shots aren’t devoid of levity, they also stand in marked contrast to stereotypical caricature, imbuing her subjects with a refreshing degree of normalcy. “I hope to share a perspective on the relativity of scale and appearance,” she notes. Expect to see eye to eye with her on this one.

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