The old book "cemeteries" of Mexico City
For:
Javier Brandoli (text and photos)
When the teenage uncle Nicolas, almost 90 years, started buying used books by Tepito, one of the most marginal neighborhoods in Mexico City, and his mother asked him one morning what he planned to do with so much paper accumulated between the narrow walls of his house, did not imagine that almost 100 years later his family would accumulate millions of second-hand works in "cemeteries" alive where manuscripts wait for decades, spilled on the floor or accumulated on huge shelves, someone give them life