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Picturing the Border - Hardcover

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by Nadiah Rivera Fellah (Author), Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Contribution by)

A compilation of Latinx photography from the US-Mexico border that foregrounds the complexity and struggle of Latinx borderland communities in the face of widespread fearmongering

The US-Mexico border has undergone dramatic changes over the past six decades, becoming increasingly industrialized, urbanized, and militarized, especially in the aftermath of 9/11 and the War on Terror. Mainstream and conservative news coverage has often reinforced or exacerbated such developments, characterizing the border as out of control and describing migrants in derogatory terms, in the process fueling xenophobic sentiment.

A foil to this reductive and dehumanizing narrative, this presentation of Latinx photography offers more nuanced portrayals of life in the borderlands. Ranging from the 1970s to the 2020s, images by Louis Carlos Bernal, Graciela Iturbide, and Laura Aguilar, as well as emerging artists such as Ada Trillo, Guadalupe Rosales, and Miguel Fernández de Castro display alternative photographic vocabularies with regard to place, identity, and race. With subject matter spanning from intimate domestic portraits and youth counterculture to border crossings and clashes involving Border Patrol, this richly illustrated volume also features scholarly essays and new work by fronteriza poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico, providing a timely new perspective on life in this fraught and misunderstood region.

Distributed for The Cleveland Museum of Art

Exhibition Schedule:

The Cleveland Museum of Art
(July 21, 2024-January 5, 2025)

Author Biography

Nadiah Rivera Fellah is associate curator of contemporary art at The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Number of Pages: 136
Dimensions: 0.63 x 12.2 x 9.21 IN
Publication Date: August 27, 2024

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