Research Catalog

Title

Border cantos / Richard Misrach, Guillermo Galindo ; introduction and essay, Josh Kun.

Publication

New York : Aperture, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Misrach, Richard, 1949-
• Galindo, Guillermo, 1960-
• Kun, Josh.
• San Jose Museum of Art host institution.
• Amon Carter Museum of American Art host institution.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art host institution.

Description

273 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 x 34 cm.

Summary

"This project presents a unique collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and composer and performer Guillermo Galindo. Misrach has been photographing the two-thousand mile border between the U.S. and Mexico since 2004, with increased focus since 2009--the latest installation in his ongoing series Desert Cantos, a multi-faceted approach to the study of place and man’s 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 Misrach's 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 Cantos--some 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." -- Publisher's description

Subject

• Misrach, Richard, 1949- > Catalogs
• Galindo, Guillermo, 1960- > Catalogs
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Documentary photography
• Mexican-American Border Region > Catalogs

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition, pictorial works
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Documentary photographs.
• Exhibition, pictorial works.
• Pictorial works
• Performance art.
• Multimedia works.
• Found object sculptures.
• Sound scuplture.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Photographs / Richard Misrach -- Sound / Guillermo Galindo -- Words / Josh Kun -- List of instruments, sound installations, and scores.

ISBN

• 9781597112895
• 1597112895

LCCN

^^2015042123

OCLC

• 948333066
• SCSB-10868735

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library