Why this city photographs so well. Mexico City is the most visited city in Latin America, and the reason it rewards a camera is not fusion but juxtaposition: pre-Hispanic stone, colonial facades, Porfirian ironwork, modernist concrete and street commerce all occupying the same block without reconciling. Nothing here matches, and that is the picture.
The addresses that never fail.
Palacio de Bellas Artes — Av. Juárez, Centro. Shoot it from the eighth-floor café of the Sears building opposite. Casa de los Azulejos — Madero 4, an eighteenth-century palace tiled entirely in Puebla talavera. Monumento a la Revolución — Plaza de la República, with the fountains in front. Centro Histórico and the Zócalo — Plaza de la Constitución. La Profesa — Isabel la Católica 21. Palacio Nacional, for Rivera's stairwell murals.
Modern and monumental. UNAM — Av. Universidad 3000, for O'Gorman's mosaic library. MUAC — Insurgentes 3000. MUNAL — Tacuba 8, for the marble staircase. Museo de Antropología — Reforma and Gandhi, for El Paraguas. Tlatelolco, for three eras on one square. Proyecto Público Prim — Gral. Prim 30, a decaying Porfirian mansion used as an exhibition space.
Green and everyday. Bosque de Chapultepec, and the Mercado de San Juan at Ernesto Pugibet 21. The Reforma roundabouts — the Ángel and the Diana — are best at dusk, when the traffic turns into light.
One rule. Ask before photographing people, especially in markets and at religious events. In some markets, including Sonora, cameras are not allowed at all.
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