PH1997:0053
Description:
- The series "Running Fence 1997" focuses "on the first 14 miles of the border fence that separates the United States and Mexico, beginning at the Pacific Ocean and ending in the Otay Mountains.... [It] analyzes the "idea" of the border and explores its iconography, the border being a subject that is of extreme importance to the public as the world proceeds towards greater globalization. [Geoffrey] James has written of the project: "[The border fence] was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1994, out of recycled metal landing strip - the most visible symbol of what is known as Operation Gatekeeper. Because the steel sheets are placed in the ground so that their ridges run horizontally, a man can hop over the fence with ease; and no Mexican child ever seems to be impeded from retrieving a soccer ball from US territory. The real barrier to illegal immigration from Mexico into the USA is less visible: hundreds of buried sensors linked to a central computer, nightscopes, helicopters and Border Patrol Agents in white Broncos."" (Evans).
architecture, ingénierie
1997
View of 24-hour border crossing supplies tent showing partial view of United States-Mexico border fence, San Diego County, California, United States, and Avenida Internacional, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
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PH1997:0053
Description:
- The series "Running Fence 1997" focuses "on the first 14 miles of the border fence that separates the United States and Mexico, beginning at the Pacific Ocean and ending in the Otay Mountains.... [It] analyzes the "idea" of the border and explores its iconography, the border being a subject that is of extreme importance to the public as the world proceeds towards greater globalization. [Geoffrey] James has written of the project: "[The border fence] was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1994, out of recycled metal landing strip - the most visible symbol of what is known as Operation Gatekeeper. Because the steel sheets are placed in the ground so that their ridges run horizontally, a man can hop over the fence with ease; and no Mexican child ever seems to be impeded from retrieving a soccer ball from US territory. The real barrier to illegal immigration from Mexico into the USA is less visible: hundreds of buried sensors linked to a central computer, nightscopes, helicopters and Border Patrol Agents in white Broncos."" (Evans).
architecture, ingénierie
AR1997:0005:004:020
architecture
negative exposed 1930s
View of the courtyard of the School of Industrial Techniques, calle Tresguerras, Mexico City
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AR1997:0005:004:020
architecture
PH2003:0276
architecture
ca. 1936
View of people on a riverboat, for the Fiesta - Dia de los Flores [?], Mexico
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PH2003:0276
architecture
PH1987:0452.02:060
architecture, sculpture
1901 or before
Partial view of the principal façade of the Church of San Francisco, Puebla, Mexico
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PH1987:0452.02:060
architecture, sculpture
PH1987:0452.02:062
architecture, sculpture
1901 or before
View of the tower of the Church of Santa Catalina de Sena, Puebla, Mexico
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PH1987:0452.02:062
architecture, sculpture
photographies
Quantité:
21 File
ARCH273474
1990s
photographies
Quantité:
21 File
1990s
PH2003:0282
architecture
ca. 1936
View of a men with musical instruments, Plume Dance, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico
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PH2003:0282
architecture
PH2003:0287
architecture
ca. 1936
View of an agrarian meeting showing Diego Rivera speaking from a balcony, Mexico
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PH2003:0287
architecture
PH1981:0997:036
architecture, sculpture
May 1860
Partial view of the Nunnery Quadrangle showing the northern façade, Uxmal Site, Mexico
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PH1981:0997:036
architecture, sculpture
dessins
ARCH77879
Description:
Plot and floor plans, sections
1989, 1991-1992
Design development drawings for Shirley MacLaine House, De Baca County, New Mexico
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ARCH77879
Description:
Plot and floor plans, sections
dessins
1989, 1991-1992