Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo: Border Cantos
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597112895 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 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 P
The book contains a compilation of two dozen sculpture-instruments, graphic scores, instrument designs and links to videos of performances by Galindo.. 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. Misrach and Galindo have been working together to create pieces that both document and transform the artifacts of migration. This proj
–American Photo, Best Photography Book of Summer 2016 . A new collaborative book of photography and art, Border Cantos, by photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo, captures some of the ostentatious absurdity of the border wall and the calamities, cultures, and artifacts that surround it. –The NationAmid all the political talk of building a wall between the U.S. Bilingual, multi-genre, international, and multi-media, Border Cantos (Aperture, 2016) breaks down the obvious duality of any wall—that you are either on this side, or on that side—and exposes the human and environmental consequences of decades of political recklessness. and Mexico, Richard Misrach
"Should be viewed by every US citizen, before our billion of our tax dollars are spent on a wall." according to Elizabeth Touchette. This beautifully photographed book made me aware of the incredible complexity of a building a border wall. One of the most interesting parts of the book are the photographs of the barriers already present along the Rio Grande part of the border. The river meanders are impossible to fence, so a more straight. So glad I got the book Susi Gorgeous! I saw Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo speak. So glad I got the book.. "Beautiful!" according to Louise. Beautiful, moving book. Exhibition was superb.