Palimpsesto Urbano
by Joshua Ellison · 09/30/09
©Brian Rosa
Returning to our business in Mexico City, here is a wonderful post from our friends at Good Magazine about the photographer Brian Rosa.
If Mexico City is a book, then it’s one that’s constantly being rewritten. For the photographer Brian Rosa the city is in a constant state of flux and reinvention—never completely finished; never completely reinvented. He began photographing the place while living there on a research fellowship focusing on the large scale planning that occurred in Mexico City leading up to the national Centennial Celebration of 1910. Seeing a discrepancy between “the rigid central planning of [that era] and the current chaos of informal settlements and economies,” Rosa says that he “ended up trying to reconcile these two conflicting histories, which have both manifested themselves heavily on the built environment.”
Be sure to check out some of Rosa’s other projects at his website.
