Richard Misrach - Border Cantos (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2006

VERY BEAUTIFUL PHOTOBOOK by well-known American photographer Richard Misrach (born 1949).

'Richard Misrach is one of the best known and most profilic of contemporary American landscape photographers, known primarily for his large-format colour photographs and his ambitious, two decade long project, Desert Cantons, which looked at the American West in a myriad of ways, ranging from the overtly sociopolitical to the formalist.'
(Martin Parr/Gerry Badger, The Photobook, A History, Volume II, page 32, about "A photographic book", San Francisco 1979).

New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
COLLECTOR'S CONDITION.

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'For a limited time, purchase Border Cantos at a discount, and Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo will donate 100% of their royalties to the Arizaona humanitarian organanization No More Deaths, which works to place gallon water jugs, canned food, and emergency supplies in remote stretches of terrain.
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.'
(from the publisher)

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Aperture, New York. 2016. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 343 x 273 mm. 274 pages. Photos: Richard Misrach. Text: Josh Kun. Text in English.

Great photobook by Richard Misrach - in perfect condition.