In this article the historiographical peculiarities of the books of photographs which treat the evolution of the Plaza Mayor in Mexico City in the XIX century are revealed. It is found that in most cases only the relations of power through which the Plaza has been expressed have been considered. By recovering the Plaza as a contested space in the framework of conflicting social relations, these considerations set themselves up as a critique of the point of view of the so-called official history.
square; photography; Mexico
