PH1997:0059
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, topographique
1997
View of an industrial park under construction with a partially completed building in the foreground and partially completed houses and mountains in the background, Mesa de Otay, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
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PH1997:0059
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, topographique
PH2006:0263
Description:
No annotations or underlining.
published 1968
Living Architecture: Ancient Mexican
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PH2006:0263
Description:
No annotations or underlining.
PH1987:0452.02:098
Description:
The paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support incorrectly identifies the photograph PH1987:0452.02:098 as the "Church of San Francisco" in Guanajuato.
architecture, topographique
1901 or before
View of the Basílica Colegiata de Guanajuato (previously known as Iglesia Parroquial de Guanajuato) showing the Plaza de la Paz with people throughout, Guanajuato, Mexico
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PH1987:0452.02:098
Description:
The paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support incorrectly identifies the photograph PH1987:0452.02:098 as the "Church of San Francisco" in Guanajuato.
architecture, topographique
PH1987:0452.02:129
architecture, sculpture
1901 or before
architecture, sculpture
PH1987:0452.02:031
architecture, sculpture
1901 or before
architecture, sculpture
PH1981:0997:033
architecture, sculpture
April 1860
architecture, sculpture
PH1981:0997:014
architecture
1859
architecture
dessins
PH1987:0452.01:053
architecture
1901 or before
dessins
1901 or before
architecture
PH1987:0452.02:123
architecture, sculpture
1901 or before
architecture, sculpture
PH1981:0997:027
architecture, sculpture
April 1860
architecture, sculpture