David Taylor: Working the Line
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
David Taylor: Working the Line Details
David Taylor's photographic examination of the contentious territory that is the U.S./Mexico border is organized around a series of approximately 260 obelisks that demarcate this boundary, and which were installed in the late 1880s. In the course of pursuing this project, Taylor earned a remarkable degree of access to U.S. Border Patrol, the agents of which often refer to their job in the field as "line work"-a term that is also an apt description of the time Taylor has spent documenting these obelisks. He has acquired a privileged insight into the intertwined issues of border security, human and drug smuggling, the construction of the border fence and its impact on the land, and has portrayed immigration issues in a way that humanizes a difficult and sensitive social and political issue. Taylor's compelling images capture the deep complexity of the politics and people of this terrain.Working the Line is accompanied by a 44-page accordion-fold booklet.
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Reviews
I bought this hoping that it had a complete set of pictures of all of the Boundary Monuments and their respective GPS coordinates, but it doesn't. It's still a worthwhile book, but came up short in the completeness department.
