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Richard Misrach: Petrochemical America

Richard Misrach: Petrochemical America

Misrach, Richard
Misrach, Richard
Orff, Kate

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ISBN10: 1597112771
ISBN13: 9781597112772
Publisher: Aperture
Published: Sep 30 2014
Pages: 240
Weight: 3.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 11.80 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Now available in a compact and easy-to-reference paperback edition, Petrochemical America features Richard Misrach's haunting photographic record of Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. Accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff's Ecological Atlas, her series of speculative drawings was developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort depicts and unpacks the complex cultural, physical, and economic ecologies along 150 miles of the Mississippi River, from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, an area of intense chemical production that first garnered public attention as Cancer Alley when unusual occurrences of cancer were discovered in the region. This collaboration has resulted in an unprecedented, multilayered document presenting a unique narrative of visual information. Petrochemical America offers an in-depth analysis on the causes of decades of environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. 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. What is revealed over the course of the book, however, is that Cancer Alley--although complicated by its own regional histories and particularities--may well be an apt metaphor for the global impact of petrochemicals on the human landscape as a whole.

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