Photography show portrays a day in Mexico's Chapultepec Park

A photography exhibition that opened last night on the fence of Mexico City's massive Chapultepec Park reflects the importance of the public space in the lives of Mexicans. More than 14 million people, locals as well as tourists, visit the park each year.

The show, called "A Day in Chapultepec," runs along the park fence along the city's best-known traffic artery, Paseo de la Reforma, and features the work of 16 Mexican photographers.

Park wardens and workers, families and lovers, joggers and street vendors are featured in the show of portraits and documentary photography.

The show is free to the public and is part of an ongoing public-art effort by Mexico City's left-leaning government. Photography exhibitions on the park's fence are a constant. An exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Leonora Carrington, a British artist who has been a resident of Mexico for decades, has been running on the opposite side of Reforma for months.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City

Photos: Top, a photo by Patricia Aridjis captures an amorous couple on the shore of one of Chapultepec's deep green lakes. Middle, Federico Gama's portrait of a young woman in the park carrying a statue of St. Judas. At bottom, Francisco Mata Rosas' photo "Visual Echo" shows a girl looking at a previous exhibition in the same spot in the park. See more of the photos from the exhibition here on Flickr. Photos of photos taken by Deborah Bonello / Los Angeles Times.

Comments

[steve rodriguez]

What is this the Mexican Times???

[gio]

wow. A photography exhibit with the same artistic relevance of an exhibit of my navel. Or your navel. Whatever. This exhibit purports to show the importance of public space in mexican lives. There's a shocking idea.

Let's hear it for misplaced keynesian government arts spending!