Title: Suburbia Mexicana
Photographer/s: Alejandro Cartagena
Contributor/s: Gerardo Montiel
Date of publication: 2009
Place of publication: USA
Dimensions: 10×8 inches
Edition size: print on demand
Type of binding: hard cover, dust jacket
Number of pages: 126
Type of paper: coche matte
Number of pictures: 89
Type of printing: Digital offset
Printer: blurb
Designer: Alejandro Cartagena
Editor: Alejandro Cartagena
Language: english
Category: artist book+pod
Price: $70
Summary: In Suburbia Mexicana, Alejandro Cartagena seeks a new way in which the subject of urban growth can be addressed and photographically represented. Mimicking the method of physicological free association, he pursues the causes and effects of the new suburban sprawl in the Metropolitan area of Monterrey in northeastern Mexico. At first glance, his ideas seem to look for no immediate voluntary intellectual reasoning, moving freely from one aspect to another in order to encompass a body of work that allows him to explore new boundaries of his initial conjecture. If we think of our urban landscapes as a reflection of society and as Robert Park has written that “the city is man’s most successful attempt to remake the world he lives in more after his heart’s desire” then we can assert that with Cartagena’s engagement in this project, with such diverse and unrestricting forms, he has succeeded in moving closer to our contemporary way of pursuing information and revealing unconscious facts about how the modern urban process works.
Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1977 Dominican Republic
Website: www.alejandrocartagena.com
Book link: http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/770196
Donated by: Alejandro Cartagena and Blurb
iPL Notes: This book was an Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Category for the Blurb Photography Books Now competition 2009.
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