PH1997:0058
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 houses under construction, Mesa de Otay, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
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PH1997:0058
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
PH1998:0020:029
architecture
before 1923?
View of houses and a new two-storey standard barrack, Kozhukhovo (now Moscow, Russia)
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PH1998:0020:029
architecture
View of the stairs and gardens of row houses, Waverly Street, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Canada
PH1987:0618
architecture
1971
View of the stairs and gardens of row houses, Waverly Street, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Canada
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PH1987:0618
architecture
View in winter showing apartment houses in the background, CCA garden, Montréal, Québec, Canada
PH1989:0072
architecture, architecture de paysage, sculpture
January 1989
View in winter showing apartment houses in the background, CCA garden, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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PH1989:0072
architecture, architecture de paysage, sculpture
PH1983:0321
architecture
1927 or later
architecture
Community of houses on hill seen through woods, and across a small creek, Tarrytown, New York
PH1987:0161
1975
Community of houses on hill seen through woods, and across a small creek, Tarrytown, New York
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PH1987:0161
PH1987:0169
1975
Two suburban houses, detail of lawn and pruned tree, Phoenix, New York, United States
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PH1987:0169
PH1985:0305
1979
Mausoleum of Sultan Barquq, from the East, with city walls and houses in foreground, Cairo, Egypt
PH1985:0738
1983
Mausoleum of Sultan Barquq, from the East, with city walls and houses in foreground, Cairo, Egypt
Actions:
PH1985:0738
PH1984:0033
Guy's Hospital, view from town street amidst town houses, Warwick, England
Actions:
PH1984:0033