Adriana Lestido. Metropolis 1988/1999

€39.00

ISBN: 978-84-17975-70-8

Author: Adriana Lestido

Binding: Softcover with a tipped-in photograph
Pages: 128
Size: 16 x 23,6 cm / 6.29 x 9.29in
Language: Bilingual (ESP-ENG)
ISBN:9978-84-17975-70-8

Year of publication: 2021

Category: Photography

Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 90s: this is the metropolis portrayed by Adriana Lestido. A city that seems both distant and contemporary in the images that the photographer made to be published in a weekly supplement about the city on Página/12 newspaper, one of the most emblematic to date.

The passing of time has not eroded the strength and power of these black and white images of places and people in neighbourhoods like Constitución, La Boca, Villa Lugano, Pompeya, or an unrecognisable Puerto Madero. The book is comprised of fifty-three photographs of a socially fragmented urban landscape and unequal Buenos Aires depicting forsaken, anonymous, vulnerable, solitary or simply beaten and resigned beings who wander, work or live in the great city.