Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules by Cartagena, Alejandro

Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules

A comprehensive survey of a prolific photographer who fearlessly charts the dreams and dystopias of Mexico today.Ground...
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Author: Alejandro Cartagena
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules by Cartagena, Alejandro

Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules

$151.99 $88.64

Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules

$151.99 $88.64
Author: Alejandro Cartagena
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A comprehensive survey of a prolific photographer who fearlessly charts the dreams and dystopias of Mexico today.

Ground Rules is the first comprehensive, fully bilingual survey charting the career of the prolific photographer Alejandro Cartagena. Celebrated for his photobooks Carpoolers (2014) and A Small Guide to Homeownership (2020), Cartagena is known for his formally engaging and socially incisive images that span the politics of the US-Mexico border, suburban sprawl, and the increasing wealth disparities in North America. Ground Rules deploys a diverse array of photographic formats, from documentary and collage to the appropriation of vernacular photographs and AI-generated imagery, all unified by Cartagena's commitment to addressing Mexico's most pressing social and environmental issues with humor and pathos.

Published to coincide with a mid-career solo exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on view from November 2025 through May 2026.



Author: Alejandro Cartagena
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 11/11/2025
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781597115728

About the Author
Cartagena, Alejandro: - Alejandro Cartagena (born in 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is an artist and editor whose projects employ landscape and portraiture to examine social, urban, and environmental issues. Cartagena's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where his mid-career survey, Ground Rules, is presented in 2025; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; Patricia Conde Galería, Mexico City; Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris; and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. His work is in the collections of museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; George Eastman Museum; and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.
Bilbao, Tatiana: - Tatiana Bilbao is a Mexico City-based architect and founder of Tatiana Bilbao Estudio.


Enrigue, Álvaro: - Álvaro Enrigue is a Mexican writer based in New York and an associate professor of romance languages and literatures at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.



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