Amado Ramirez

Mexican bullfighter known as El Loco, the subject of Mailer's essay "The Crazy One" / "Footnote to 'Death in the Afternoon'" and the photographic narrative The Bullfight (1967).

Amado Ramirez, the Mexican bullfighter known as “El Loco,” is the subject of Mailer’s essay published as “The Crazy One” (67.17) and, as “Footnote to ‘Death in the Afternoon,’” in The Bullfight (67.20); later reprinted as “Homage to El Loco.”