Midnight la frontera / Ken Light.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Light, Ken, photographer.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

U.S. Border Patrol.

Mexican Americans--Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Otay Mesa (San Diego, Calif.)--Pictorial works.

Otay Mesa (San Diego, Calif.).

Noncitizens--Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration--Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works.

Illegal immigration.

U.S. Border Patrol--Pictorial works.

Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 34 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Frontera

Place of Publication:

[Oakland, California] : TBW Books [2020]

Summary:

Between 1983 and 1987 along the California/Mexico border, Ken Light took his Hasselblad camera and flash and rode along with US Border Patrol agents in the middle of the night as they combed the Otay Mesa looking for "illegal aliens." He was there when they were apprehended--captured by authorities as well as the photographer's flash. The black and white images are stark, impromptu mug shots in the desert, taken at a moment of extreme vulnerability, when hope gave way to despair, migrants caught in a cruel game of hide and seek. Light's photographs and José Ángel Navejas' first hand, compelling memoir, presented in both English and Spanish, offer testimony of the harrowing night border crossing of those desperately seeking a chance at a better life. A day after Navejas first crossed the US border from Mexico, he was caught and deported back onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, he crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. In piercing words and in strobe lit images caught against the dark of night, Midnight La Frontera's immediacy underscores the struggle and defiance of those who make the perilous hike for days and weeks in search of the American Dream.

Notes:

Includes: The jaguar's path = El sendero del jaguar / José Ángel Navejas.

Contains:

Light, Ken. Photographs. Selections.

Navejas, José Ángel. Sendero del jaguar.

Navejas, José Ángel. Sendero del jaguar. English.

ISBN:

9781942953432

1942953437

OCLC:

1184098324