The Last City
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
The Last City
Photographs: Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
Text: José Emilio Pacheco
Publisher: Twin Palms Publisher
104 pages
Pictures: 56
Year: 1995
Price: 50 €
Comments: Red linen hardcover under dust jacket. First edition, 1995. Gravure printing. As new.
“Stendhal’s famous definition of the novel—a mirror carried along a road—could well apply to The Last City. But Ortiz Monasterio’s is a selective mirror, precise and implacable, which retains only that which is worth preserving.” — José Emilio Pacheco
Mexico City presents a post-apocalyptic paradigm, rivaled only, perhaps, by Los Angeles—it is a metropolis ravaged by immense poverty, crime, and the ill-effects of overpopulation. As a street photographer working in the tradition of committed documentary image-making, Ortiz Monasterio reveals Mexico City’s fragmentation.
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