06 March 2008

Just like the title says

19. The Transportation of Place by Andrea Robbins & Max Becher (3/5)

The New York City skyline in Las Vegas, Nevada; German-influenced architecture and clothing in Namibia; Native American reenactments in Germany; Bavaria in Leavenworth, Washington; the home of spaghetti westerns, Almería, Spain; Wall Street in Cuba; St. Pierre and Miquelon, little pieces of France off the coast of Newfoundland; and several other transported places.

The Transportation of Place is a book of color photographs of places (and sometimes people) that have roots elsewhere. Each series of photos is preceded by an informative blurb explaining how the displacement originally occurred. There are a couple of essays in the back about the photographers and their work, but I just skimmed those since there wasn't much new information offered. What an artist has to say about her own work, I'm interested in; what someone else has to say about it, not so much.

Two years ago on TTaT: New rule, please

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