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List of photobooks by photographer Cartagena, Alejandro
Alejandro Cartagena lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues.
Photo: © self-portrait
Alejandro Cartagena, a Mexican photographer
Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues.
Photo: © self-portrait
Cartagena’s work has been exhibited everywhere
Cartagena’s fine art photography has long been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in spaces including the the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his work is in the collections of several museums including the San Francisco MOMA, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, among others...
A successful photographer
Alejandro has created several award wining titles including Santa Barbara Shame on US, A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption, Rivers of Power... Some of his books are in the Yale University Library, and the 10×10 Photobooks/MFH Houston book collections among others.
Acclaimed by critics, he has received several awards including the Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, and the Street Photography Award in London Photo Festival among others. He has been named an International Discoveries of the FotoFest festival, and a FOAM magazine TALENT.
His work has been published internationally in magazines and newspapers such as Newsweek, Nowness, Domus, the Financial Times, The New York Times, Le Monde, Stern, PDN, The New Yorker, among others.
Bibliography: Already published photo books / monographs
2017 A guide to Infrastructure and Corruption
Santa Barbara Shame on US
2016 Rivers of Power
Santa Barbara return Jobs to US
Carpoolers 2nd edition
Por lo que Peleamos / What we fight for
2015 Headshots
Before the War
2014 Carpoolers
2010 Suburbia Mexicana
2006 Identidades Nuevo León
2005 Espacios Habitables
A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption...
192 pages - Hardcover, tape-bound The Velvet Cell, 2017 (500 copies) Format : 14 x 21 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition Presentation of the photobook by Skinnerboox: " « A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption is a long-term project that I started in 2009 when the opportunity to become a conscious citizen arose. A new overpass was to be built a block away...
46,00 €In StockSanta Barbara shame on US (*signed*)
Presentation by Skinnerboox: "After Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US, the second chapter by Alejandro Cartagena on the US is a more tragically constructed visual landscape. The current state of things in « America » has created a greater divide and contrast socially and especially politically. As such, the book carefully suggests and addresses these...
50,00 €Out of stockPresentation on Alejandro Cartagena's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay underneath...
45,00 €In StockCarpoolers - 2nd edition (*signed*)
Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its environment (except for the road and the roof and hood of the trucks),...
75,00 €Out of stockText from the slipcase cover : "This is the story of the tragic relationship between two bodies: a critical narration of the long and failed relationship between a society and a river. Although today it is a long and winding sarcophagus, in the past the city depended on the abundance of its stream. Centuries later, with Monterrey transformed into a...
54,00 €In StockSanta Barbara Return Jobs Back to US...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Many of the photographs in this book are not “about” anything per se, but their tone, seen together, leaves little mystery. Alejandro’s “America,” seen through the lens of “Santa Barbara,” is a place hanging on by a thread. There are several images in the book, peering down on the street, taken from high up in a...
Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US
Publisher's presentation : "Many of the photographs in this book are not “about” anything per se, but their tone, seen together, leaves little mystery. Alejandro’s “America,” seen through the lens of “Santa Barbara,” is a place hanging on by a thread. There are several images in the book, peering down on the street, taken from high up in a building...
60,00 €Out of stockBefore the War - Limited Edition
Limited Edition of 10 signed & numbered copies. We are offering copy #03/10. Presentation on Alejandro Cartagena's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places...
325,00 €In StockBefore the War - 1st ed. (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay...
Carpoolers (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its environment (except for the road and the roof and hood of the...
.Sold out.We are now offering the 2nd edition of the "Carpoolers" book.Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its...
