This project presents a unique collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and composer and performer Guillermo Galindo. 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.
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).
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.
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. –The Nation
Amid all the political talk of building a wall between the U.S. and
Mexico, Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo offer a poignant
meditation on the patchwork borderline that now exists. –American
Photo, Best Photography Book of Summer 2016
The pair collaborated in a traveling exhibition as well as this
catalog, in which Misrach’s visual artistry renders the desolate
scenes all the more stunning. –American Photo, Best Photography
Book of Summer 2016
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