Petrochemical America by Richard Misrach and Kate Orff
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.16 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597112771 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book will blow your mind Beautiful, haunting book of photographs by Richard Misrach, one of the world's great photographers, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff’s Ecological Atlas (drawings that map Louisiana's Chemical corridor, also called “Cancer Alley”, which spreads along the Mississippi River.) What i. Excellent Excellent book …I wish there were more photographs … the documentary data is the greater portion of the book but it's thorough,informative, very clear. I purchased the book because it is both an creative endeavor, and a socio-political document … pleased on both counts.. If you are a visual person, you will appreciate If you are a visual person, you will appreciate this vehicle for understanding the impact of petrochemicals. Words tell part of the story and photographs take you deeper into the insidious progression of blight and poison.
Here, the photo works in concert with Orff's atlas and the book's images of bridges, antebellum relics, Texaco stations, decrepit lots, and the like, creating a kind of systems novel of the poisoned American South. The atmosphere is suffocating, to be sure, and Misrach asks us to breathe it in as deeply as we can.--The Editors"Bookforum" (12/09/2014)In 2010, Richard Misrach returned to photograph the strench of Louisiana known as Cancer Alley, a 150-mile section of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, which he had also explored in 1998. Misrach's Petrochemical America is more than a disherting photographic essay on the evils of Dow Chemical Misrach's view is mainly detached,
Even more critically, the project offers an extensively researched guidebook to the way in which the petrochemical industry has permeated every facet of contemporary life. "Petrochemical America" offers in-depth analysis of the causes of decades of environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. "On the Beach" and "Violent Legacies" addressed contamination of desert and beach areas.Kate Orff (born 1971) is an assistant professor at Columbia University and founder of SCAPE, a landscape architecture studio in Manhattan. What is revealed over the course of the book, however, is that Cancer Alley--although complicated b
. His books with Aperture include Violent Legacies (1992), On the Beach (2007), Destroy This Memory (2010), Petrochemical America (with Kate Orff, 2012), Golden Gate (2012), The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings (2015), and Border Cantos (with Guillermo Galindo, 2016). He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Kulturprei