Research Catalog

Title

Alerta Mira-sol / Blanca Munt.

Author

Munt, Blanca

Publication

Madrid : Dalpine / Fiebre Photobook, 2021.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Arauz, Goren
• Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection)

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

In 2019, photographer Blanca Munt engaged in a neighbourhood chat group created to surveil her own neighbourhood and alert to any potential home burglaries or other suspicious activity. What is initially presented as an effective tool for the neighbours soon becomes a source of speculation, suspicion and paranoia. The seemingly quiet community life in a neighbourhood of well-lit streets and conventional homes founders due to the actual burglaries, but also due to the disintegration of the idea of community when personal security is at stake: mistrust, typically based on suspicious appearance or behaviour, now extends to any neighbours who fail to rigorously conform to the group?s purpose.With a clean and sober design reminiscent of a real estate or security company brochure, the dispassionate pictures portrayed in Mira-sol Alert intertwine with the mental images stemming from an inflamed rhetoric, which gradually take shape as we learn the self-interested views of the different actors in this landscape -neighbours, suspects, police officers, local authorities-, and which appeal strongly to our fears and contradictions. In her own words, Blanca Munt calls for a "reflection on the tension between the privilege of living in a peaceful place and the constant sense of lurking threat encouraged by our current culture of fear."

Subject

• Photography, Artistic
• Neighborhoods > Spain > Barcelona (Province) > Pictorial works
• Neighborhood watch programs > Spain > Barcelona (Province)
• Neighborhood watch programs
• Neighborhoods
• Artists' books
• Spain > Barcelona (Province)

Genre/Form

• Artists' books.
• Photobooks.
• Pictorial works.
• Artists' books – Spain – 21st century.

Note

• Cover title.
• Translation, Goren Arauz.
• "Alerta Mira-sol has been published thanks to the Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award 2020 in collaboration with Artes Gráficas Palermo & Dalpine"--Back wrapper.

Call Number

MEMZ+ (Munt) 23-94

ISBN

• 9788409282401
• 8409282402

OCLC

1263759437

Author

Munt, Blanca, artist.

Title

Alerta Mira-sol / Blanca Munt.

Publisher

Madrid : Dalpine / Fiebre Photobook, 2021.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Added Author

Arauz, Goren, translator.

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection)

Research Call Number

MEMZ+ (Munt) 23-94