107th Street Watts
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • accordion
  • slipcase
  • black-and-white
  • 20 x 16 x 2.5 cm.
  • 2 vol. : [unpaginated] ; [unpaginated]
  • edition size 1000
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3934823823

107th Street Watts

Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines, Lynell George, Vincent Johnson

107th Street Watts

description

Two-volume artists' book comprised of one volume that mimics Edward Ruscha's "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" by photographically documenting every building on 107th Street, in the Watts section of Los Angeles -- from the Watts Towers onwards. Second volume within the slipcase contains essays by Charles Gaines, Lynell George, and Vincent Johnson. "In his conceptual photography project '107th Street, Watts' Edgard Arcenaux draws attention to a specific location in Los Angeles, and its historical significance from a single point refers in its history: the Watts Riot of 1965, a site of violent unrest, as a result of a routine inspection of a drunken motorist. Following the example of Ed's famous Ruscha's mapping of the 'Sunset Strip' has Arceneaux documenting all buildings on 107th Street (site of the historic Watts Towers) photographed and in an approximately 7-meter-long photo-montage. The Leporello form of the publication provides an undisturbed overall impression. With its images of the historically polluted and largely Arceneaux neglected place provides an important contribution the photographic history of the city of Los Angeles." -- publisher's statement.

references

"Various Small Books : Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha" by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, Hermann Zschiegner, Phil Taylor, Mark Rawlinson. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2013, pp. 74 - 75.
$75.00
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