Imperial County - Couverture rigide

 
9783868287813: Imperial County
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3868287817 ISBN 13 : 9783868287813
Editeur : Kehrer Verlag, 2017

Synopsis

Imperial is the youngest and poorest county in California. Although located in the Colorado Desert on the San Andreas Fault and, with temperatures of up to 50°C and an average annual precipitation of only 75 milimeters, marked by life-threatening conditions, it is one of the main producers of winter vegetables, salads, grain, and alfalfa in the USA. The demand for water is enormous – old water rights ensure Imperial County vast quantities of water from the Colorado River, which is pumped via a network of channels and pipelines into an area as large as the entire metropolitan region of Los Angeles: the largest irrigation system on the North American continent. The unemployment rate is the second highest in the USA – incomes are at the lower end of the scale in otherwise wealthy California. Here, hard-working people, especially Hispanics, labour in the fields to the point of exhaustion, while the homeless, the displaced, and downshifters live the flip-side of the American Dream.
With his impressive landscapes and portraits, the Berlin-based photographer Lars Borges dedicates his book project to these people in an effort to point out the effects of unbridled global capitalism on man and nature.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lars Borges is a photographer based in Berlin and London. Among his clients are adidas, Dior, H&M, Nike, Volkswagen, Blackberry and Microsoft, his work has been published in GQ, ELLE, Esquire, Neon, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Stern, ZEITmagazin.

Enno Kaufhold is a photographer, teacher, photo historian, curator and writer based in Berlin.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Imperial is the youngest and poorest county in California. Although located in the Colorado Desert on the San Andreas Fault and, with temperatures of up to 50°C and an average annual precipitation of only 75 milimeters, marked by life-threatening conditions, it is one of the main producers of winter vegetables, salads, grain, and alfalfa in the USA. The demand for water is enormous – old water rights ensure Imperial County vast quantities of water from the Colorado River, which is pumped via a network of channels and pipelines into an area as large as the entire metropolitan region of Los Angeles: the largest irrigation system on the North American continent. The unemployment rate is the second highest in the USA – incomes are at the lower end of the scale in otherwise wealthy California. Here, hard-working people, especially Hispanics, labour in the fields to the point of exhaustion, while the homeless, the displaced, and downshifters live the flip-side of the American Dream.
With his impressive landscapes and portraits, the Berlin-based photographer Lars Borges dedicates his book project to these people in an effort to point out the effects of unbridled global capitalism on man and nature.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Kehrer Verlag
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3868287817
ISBN 13 
9783868287813
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
160
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