num_pages: 104
description: "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 PachecoMexico 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, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio (born 1952) reveals Mexico City’s fragmentation.
language: English
title: Pablo Ortiz Monasterio: The Last City
titlecomplete: Pablo Ortiz Monasterio: The Last City
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Twin Palms Publishers