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Normandy Wall Near Ocotillo, California
2015
60 x 80 in. (152.4 x 203.2 cm)
Richard Misrach (Los Angeles, California, 1949 - ) Primary
Border Cantos: Richard Misrach, Guillermo Galindo, February 26, 2016 - July 31, 2016, New Wing, Second Floor, North and Central Skylight Galleries and Historic Wing, Paul L. Davies Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Border Cantos: Richard Misrach, Guillermo Galindo (2016)
There are about a dozen variations of the US-Mexico border fence in use today depending on location, terrain, and foot traffic. The Normandy-style fence takes its name from the similar barricades constructed on the beaches of Normandy, France during World War II. It is designed to impede vehicles from crossing the border, and does very little to prevent pedestrians from entering the country. The US Department of Homeland Security extracted stretches of “historic” tracks along the Old Southwest Railroad to use as the backbone for these crisscrossing segments. Typically found along vast remote stretches where vehicular transportation is necessary to gain access to distant highways, about three-quarters of the seven hundred miles enacted by the Secure Fence Act of 2006 use this style of “x-shaped” fencing.
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Normandy Wall Near Ocotillo, California
Photograph
201560 x 80 in. (152.4 x 203.2 cm)
Richard Misrach (Los Angeles, California, 1949 - ) Primary
Object Type: Photograph
Medium and Support: Pigment print
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Acquisitions Committee and the Lipman Family Foundation
Accession Number: 2017.11.01
Exhibition
South East North West: New Works from the Collection, October 30, 2020 - October 3, 2021, New Wing, Second Floor, North, South and Central Skylight Galleries, San José Museum of Art. Border Cantos: Richard Misrach, Guillermo Galindo, February 26, 2016 - July 31, 2016, New Wing, Second Floor, North and Central Skylight Galleries and Historic Wing, Paul L. Davies Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
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Border Cantos: Richard Misrach, Guillermo Galindo (2016)
There are about a dozen variations of the US-Mexico border fence in use today depending on location, terrain, and foot traffic. The Normandy-style fence takes its name from the similar barricades constructed on the beaches of Normandy, France during World War II. It is designed to impede vehicles from crossing the border, and does very little to prevent pedestrians from entering the country. The US Department of Homeland Security extracted stretches of “historic” tracks along the Old Southwest Railroad to use as the backbone for these crisscrossing segments. Typically found along vast remote stretches where vehicular transportation is necessary to gain access to distant highways, about three-quarters of the seven hundred miles enacted by the Secure Fence Act of 2006 use this style of “x-shaped” fencing.
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