In fall 2012, the hardcover edition of this book was released to critical acclaim and received several awards, including the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for its innovative collaborative approach and design. Now available in a smaller, more afford - able paperback edition, Petrochemical America features Richard Misrachs haunting photo-graphic record of Louisianas Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff s Ecological Atlasa series of speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort depicts and unpacks the complex cultural, physical, and economic ecologies along 150 miles of the Mississippi River, from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, an area of intense chemical production that first garnered public attention as Cancer Alley when unusual occurrences of cancer were discovered in the region. This collaboration has resulted in an unprecedented, multilayered document presenting a unique narrative of visual information. Petrochemical America offers in-depth analysis of the causes of decades of environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. Even more critically, the project offers an extensively researched guidebook to the ways in which the petrochemical industry has permeated every facet of contemporary life. What is revealed over the course of the book, however, is that Cancer Alleyalthough complicated by its own regional histories and particularitiesmay well be an apt metaphor for the global impact of petrochemicals on the human landscape as a whole.
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Weight: 1420g
Dimensions: 300 x 235mm
Publication Date: 25 Aug 2014
Publisher: Aperture
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781597112772
About Kate OrffRichard Misrach
Richard Misrach is one of the most influential photographers of his generation well-known for his ongoing project Desert Cantos. His work is held by major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum of American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kulturpreis for Lifetime Achievement in Photography. His books with Aperture include Violent Legacies (1992) On the Beach (2007) Destroy This Memory (2010) Petrochemical America (with Kate Orff 2012) Golden Gate (2012) The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings (2015) and Border Cantos (with Guillermo Galindo 2016). Richard Misrach is one of the most influential photographers of his generation well-known for his ongoing project Desert Cantos. His work is held by major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum of American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kulturpreis for Lifetime Achievement in Photography. His books with Aperture include Violent Legacies (1992) On the Beach (2007) Destroy This Memory (2010) Petrochemical America (with Kate Orff 2012) Golden Gate (2012) The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings (2015) and Border Cantos (with Guillermo Galindo 2016).
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