Shop > Artists' Books

#16416

Border Documents

Artist
Arturo Soto
Price
$47.00
Date
2025
Publisher
The Eriskay Connection
Format
Artists' Books
ISBN
9789493363199
Size
9.5 × 16.5 cm
Length
144 pp
Genre
Photography
Description

Arturo Soto (MX) grew up listening to his father’s stories about his youth in the twin cities of Juárez (Mexico) and El Paso (USA), fascinated by how much things had changed in just a generation. Over time, he compiled and narratively shaped his father’s memories, then photographed the sites where they occurred. Border Documents is a personal archive of ordinary events that reveals how emotions become attached to public spaces. Most importantly, the book stands apart from the reductive media coverage of the border that focuses solely on the violence caused by drug trafficking, illegal migration, and corruption. The different temporalities expressed through the mediums of photography and writing produce a vivid account of a territory that plays a vital role in global trade. Oscillating between the personal and the political, Border Documents reminds us, as the critic Edward Soja once remarked, that biographies are geographies as much as they are histories.

  1. Border Documents
  2. Border Documents
Images:12
 

Related Items

  1. Naomi Yasui: Vase No. 7
  2. David Horovitz: Mood Disorder
  3. Jannis Schulze: San Carlos
  4. Mitchell Thar: Untitled A2
  5. Jesus Days
  6. Paul Collins: VENT
  7. A Sudden Drop
  8. A Sudden Drop Collector’s Edition
  9. G.B. Jones
  10. Lars Ahlstrom and Hans Anders Molin: Airspace
  11. Smoke Room 4
  12. Smoke Room 3
  13. Guantanamo.
  14. Leah James: Night Skies
  15. Leah James: photographs
  16. Filipe Casaca: Blue Mud Swamp
  17. Filipe Casaca: my home is where you are (a minha casa é onde estás)
  18. Eric Doeringer: Autobiography (after Sol LeWitt)
  19. Katrin Koffman: Ensembles Assembled: In Full Color
  20. Mira Mexico
  21. Ryan Trecartin: Yet
  22. Un Ano de Basura (One Year of Garbage)
  23. Portraits by Waiters
  24. Wheels and Trophies
  25. Stephen Gill: Hackney Wick
  26. Thomas Mailaender: The Night Climbers of Cambridge
  27. Stephen Gill: Coming Up For Air
  28. Justin Yong: gentle
  29. Nicholas Gottlund and Suzanna Zak: The Copier
  30. Robin Nishio: Wailed
  31. Common
  32. Tess Roby: succession of divers into the pool
  33. Peter MacCallum: Documentary Projects 2005 - 2015
  34. Brad Elterman: Villa Le Rêve
  35. Jason Roberts Dobrin: Los Angeles Photo Book
  36. Rohan Hutchinson: Elemental
  37. Karla Read: Two
  38. Chloë Delanghe : Reasons to Be Cheerful
  39. Seth Fluker: Local, Live and Breaking