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AS ORIGINALLY SHRINKWRAPPED COPY!
Background information
"The volume 'Metrópolis' by prominent Argentinian photographer Adriana LESTIDO (b. 1955) gathers black-and-white pictures of Buenos Aires taken between 1988 and 1999. The inspiration for this book came in 2018 when filmmaker Fernando Spiner asked her for permission to use photographs that had not appeared in any books or exhibitions for a film taking place in early-’90s Buenos Aires. Evocatively somber images of a bygone Buenos Aires.
Content
The black-and-white photographs by Adriana LESTIDO chronicle the expansion of the city, documenting neighborhoods such as Constitución, La Boca, Villa Lugano, Pompella and a today-unrecognizable Puerto Madero. A total of fifty-three images, originally taken for a weekly column in the newspaper 'Página/12', are included here. From street dogs to protests to workers on their daily commutes, her photography paints a poignant portrait of a socially fragmented Buenos Aires with anonymous and solitary figures who wander, work or live in the big city." (© Editorial RM, 2022)