A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption
Alejandro Cartagena
The Velvet Cell
English
Hardcover
192 Pages
140x210mm
2017
ISBN 9781908889539
The super highways, overpasses, and large expressways will explain the extinction of the society that traveled by car towards progress.
About the Artist:
Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. Cartagena’s work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 group and individual exhibitions in spaces including the the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his work is in the collections of several museums including the San Francisco MOMA, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Portland Museum of Art, The West Collection, the Coppel collection, the FEMSA collection, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and among others.
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About the Publisher:
The Velvet Cell is an Indie Photobook Publisher exploring the built environment.
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