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Longing: Personal Effects from the Border

Longing: Personal Effects from the Border Photo essAy .................... Longing Personal Effects from the Border photographs by Susan Harbage Page with an introduction by Bernard L. Herman Editor's Note: For the past three years Susan Harbage Page has photographed the possessions left behind by people crossing the U.S.-Mexican Border near Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico. Immigrants swim across the Rio Grande and then quickly change from wet clothes into dry clothes and disappear into the general population. If stopped by the Border Patrol, they are asked to empty their pockets of everything non-essential. Page sees the resultant personal items strewn along the border "as symbols or relics not only of a changing culture but also of a longing for a better life, security for one's family, a safer environment." This work was supported in part by a research grant from the UNC Center for the Study of the American South. Susan Harbage Page's portfolio, Longing: Personal Effects from the Border, is an intervention--at once aesthetic, archaeological, and archival--into the spaces and objects associated with the great migration north across the Rio Grande and into the United States. Page's images are visual conversations about the material culture of the immigrant experience and compel us to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Longing: Personal Effects from the Border

Page, Susan Harbage
Southern Cultures , Volume 16 (1) – Feb 27, 2010
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Photo essAy .................... Longing Personal Effects from the Border photographs by Susan Harbage Page with an introduction by Bernard L. Herman Editor's Note: For the past three years Susan Harbage Page has photographed the possessions left behind by people crossing the U.S.-Mexican Border near Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico. Immigrants swim across the Rio Grande and then quickly change from wet clothes into dry clothes and disappear into the general population. If stopped by the Border Patrol, they are asked to empty their pockets of everything non-essential. Page sees the resultant personal items strewn along the border "as symbols or relics not only of a changing culture but also of a longing for a better life, security for one's family, a safer environment." This work was supported in part by a research grant from the UNC Center for the Study of the American South. Susan Harbage Page's portfolio, Longing: Personal Effects from the Border, is an intervention--at once aesthetic, archaeological, and archival--into the spaces and objects associated with the great migration north across the Rio Grande and into the United States. Page's images are visual conversations about the material culture of the immigrant experience and compel us to

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Published: Feb 27, 2010

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