Border Cantos

Name: Border Cantos
Brand: Aperture
SKU: 9781597112895
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This project presents a unique collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and composer and performer Guillermo Galindo. Misrach has been photographing the twothousand- mile border between the U.S. and Mexico since 2004, with increased focus since 2009the latest installation in his ongoing series Desert Cantos, a multi-faceted approach to the study of place and mans complex relationship to it. Misrach and Galindo have been working together to create pieces that both document and transform the artifacts of migration. Using water bottles, clothing, backpacks, Border Patrol drag tires, spent shotgun shells, ladders, and sections of the border wall itself, most of which were collected by Misrach, Galindo fashions instruments to be performed as unique sound-generating devices. He also imagines graphic musical scores, many of which also use Misrachs photographs as points of departure. A unique melding of the artist as documentarian and interpreter, the book will include several suites of photographs drawn from a number of distinct series, or Cantossome made with a large-format camera as well as an iPhone. The book will also contain a compilation of two dozen sculpture-instruments, graphic scores, instrument designs, and links to videos of performances by Galindo on the image-inspired instruments. See more

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Weight: 2450g
Dimensions: 337 x 267mm
Publication Date: 06 Jun 2016
Publisher: Aperture
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781597112895

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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). Guillermo Galindo is an experimental composer. His interpretations of concepts such as musical form time perception music notation sonic archetypes and sound-generating devices span a wide spectrum of artistic works performed and shown at major festivals concert halls and art exhibitions throughout the United States Latin America Europe and Asia. Josh Kun is an Associate Professor in the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. His books include Audiotopia: Music Race and America (California 2005) and Songs in the Key of Los Angeles: Sheet Music and the Making of Southern California (Angel City Press 2013).Laura Pulido is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC. Her books include Black Brown Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (California 2006) and A People s Guide to Los Angeles (California 2012).