Main entry:

Misrach, Richard, 1949- photographer, writer of added commentary.

Title & Author:

Border cantos / Richard Misrach, Guillermo Galindo ; introduction and epilogue = introducción y epílogo, Josh Kun.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Aperture, [2016]
Italy : Trifolio
©2016

Description:

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

Notes:
This catalog accompanies the exhibition, "Border Cantos" which was held at the San Jose Museum of Art on February 26-July 31, 2016, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art on September 14-December 1, 2016 and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on February 18-April 24, 2017. Accompanying the exhibitions were performances of Guillermo Galindo's compositions on the informal musical instruments displayed and photographed.
Endpages are maps with cross-references to page numbers: front flyleaves are "Location of photography" = "Ubicaciónes [sic] de las fotografías;" back flyleaves are "Location of artifacts used in Sonic border" = "Ubicaciónes [sic] de los artefactos utilizados en Frontera sonora."
Includes bibliographical references.
Misrach / Galindo: Introduction / Josh Kun -- Eight cantos = Ocho cantos: photograph and text / Richard Misrach -- Sonic border = Frontera sonora: instruments, sound installations, scores, and text: / Guillermo Galindo -- Imaginary stories = Historias imaginarias / Guillermo Galindo -- On the border of sight and sound = En la frontera de la vista y el sonido: epilogue / Josh Kun -- Materials checklist for Sonic border = Lista de materiales para Frontera sonora.
All texts in parallel English and Spanish.

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.
"[Richard Misrach] saw the border, [Guillermo Galindo] heard it, and by coming together across that line of artistic practice, they've now created these 'border cantos.' Misrach has been using the canto literary structure, borrowed from Dante and Ezra Pound, as a way of organizing his long-term photographic project, Desert cantos (1979 to present). But here the canto also moves off the page and into sound, opening up into Galindo's practice. In Italian, canto means 'song'; in Spanish, 'singing' and 'chant.' In this sense, all cantos are part eye and part ear, able to bee seen and heard at once."--Page 10.

Resources:
Website for the project

ISBN:

9781597112895 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1597112895 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Misrach, Richard, 1949- Exhibitions.
Galindo, Guillermo, 1960- Performances Exhibitions.
Misrach, Richard, 1949- Expositions.
Galindo, Guillermo, 1960- Expositions.
Galindo, Guillermo, 1960-
Misrach, Richard, 1949-
Galindo, Guillermo 1960-
Misrach, Richard 1949-
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Documentary photography.
Performance art Mexican-American Border Region.
Multimedia (Art) Mexican-American Border Region.
Musical instrument makers Mexican-American Border Region.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine Dans l'art Expositions.
Photographie documentaire.
Œuvres multimédias (Art) Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Facteurs d'instruments de musique Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Manœuvre artistique Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
documentary photography.
Emigration and immigration Political aspects
Emigration and immigration Social aspects
Multimedia (Art)
Musical instrument makers
Performance art
Performances
Fotografie
Klangkunst
Grenze
Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration Social aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration Political aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Mexican-American Border Region In art Exhibitions.
Mexican-American Border Region Pictorial works.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine Émigration et immigration Aspect social.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine Émigration et immigration Aspect politique.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine Ouvrages illustrés.
North America Mexican-American Border Region
Mexiko

Form/genre:

Informal musical instruments. TMM
Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
Pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Galindo, Guillermo, 1960- composer, writer of added commentary.
Kun, Josh, writer of added commentary.
Shibata, Masami, 1940- editor, book designer.
Galindo, Guillermo, 1960- Sonic border.
San Jose Museum of Art, host institution.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, host institution.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 292315
Call No.: BIB 236532
Status: Available