Desire Lines

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Description

208 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) . Cover title 'Desire Lines' follows old and new movements through the desert landscape of the Sonoran borderlands of the United States and Mexico: paths taken by migrants and border agents, of missionaries and conquistadors, of indigenous people and industrialists. The messy and at times violent collision of peoples has created a region that defies the harmfully simplistic narratives so frequently attributed to our borders. Shipley's photographs focus on the disorienting experience of this landscape, a place of beauty or danger depending on the perspective of those moving through it. Deceptively empty, the landscape is under constant watch, heavily surveilled and controlled, with an ever-increasing military presence that has seeped into the lives of residents in surrounding communities. -- publisher's statement. Book design by Tiffany Postcard size insert laid in. Adhesive binding.

ISBN

Shipley_DesireLines.pdf

Publication Date

2023

Imprint / Year

[London] : Overlapse Books, [2023]

Publisher

Overlapse Books

City

London

Keywords

social documentary photography; documentary photography; black-and-white prints (photographs); border inspection stations; borders (boundaries); border patrol; Mexico; United States; military presence; documentary photographs; borderlands

Disciplines

Photography

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1778478~S5

Recommended Citation

"Desire Lines" (2023). Photography. 44.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_photography/44