Richard Misrach: Border Cantos

This latest installation in Misrach’s ongoing Desert Cantos series explores the entire length of the US/Mexico border, in photographs made with a large-format camera as well as images captured with an iPhone.

Color photograph of the US/Mexico border with a mountain range in the distance with pinkish blue skies
Color photograph of a tall metal and concrete fence receding into the misty horizon on the right
Color photograph of a segment of tall metal fence in the middle of a bare field
Color photograph of a metal fence running over a landscape of rocky hills and low green bushes into the horizon
Color photograph of a tall metal fence segment ending in a bare dirt patch among low-lying trees and plants
Color photograph of a metal fence made of X-shaped crossbars running through a hilly desert landscape
Color photograph of a tattered blue flag standing next to a blue barrel marked AGUA in a desert landscape
Color photograph of a tall metal fence running into the ocean from the beach, with beach goers visible through the bars
Color photograph of scattered red ammunition casings lying on a bare cracked ground
Color photograph of a woman looking through and obscured by a metal lattice and fence posts
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