PABLO ORTIZ MONASTERIO: THE LAST CITY POLAROID KID Avedon’s striking portraits of miners

Avedon’s striking portraits of miners

b/w photographs

and their public pay phones are a recurring theme in this work

The author is one of the "least known of the well-known" Czech documentary photographers

making it a rare testimony to this point in time

PABLO ORTIZ MONASTERIO: THE LAST CITY POLAROID KID Avedon’s striking portraits of miners"Stendhals famous definition of the novela mirror carried along a roadcould 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." Jos Emilio Pacheco Mexico City presents a post apocalyptic paradigm, rivaled only, perhaps, by Los Angelesit is a metropolis ravaged by immense poverty, crime, and the ill effects of overpopulation. As a street photographer