Title: La ciudad que ya no existe
Description: ±This is a walk through the city of our ancestors, of our grandparents and parents, which today we seek to inherit to our children and grandchildren. Mexico City is meant to preserve your memory until the consummation of time. Alejandro Rosas. Planters on the Zócalo plaza, a woman paddling on the waters of the Viga channel, an immense llanero soccer field in the Zona Rosa, a railway station on the corner of Insurgentes and Reforma. These photographs, as Rafael Pérez Gay says, "occupy the past and open a mysterious door to the present. Without these images we would not exist, or we would be shadows that wander without history. (HKB Translation) --Verso Cover. Author Carlos Villasana is the founder of the project ±La Ciudad de México en el tiempo.
Subjects: City and town life, Pictorial works, History, Buildings, structures, Social life and customs
Places: Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico City (Mexico)