Monographic series on photographers from Brazil. Nelson Kon is certainly the most prominent Brazilian architectural photographer of the current generation. Nelson Kon, however, is not an architectural photographer. The labels, necessary to facilitate the identification of market niches, tend to encase, with their tax nomenclatures, something that is much more complex and porous in nature. Nelson Kon, as the images in this book attest, is an inspired chronicler who draws on the urban landscape, forms of land appropriation and, of course, the architecture to narrate existing tensions in these equations.Its focus is on the contemporary human being's occupation of space, but also on the fracture that does not close - especially in the Brazilian context - between the idealized desire to construct from rational premises and the lack of strategic planning, the contempt for the historical perspective of places, the degenerate use of what was to be what it never was.