107th Street Watts

Résumé du livre

Tiré du site Internet de Revolver : "In his conceptual photography project "107th Street, Watts" Edgar Arceneaux follows a desire to produce a number of strong visual counter arcs to a relentlessly mediated social space, as well as a desire to ignite a critique of the narrow histories of Los Angeles' provocative past. Expanding the traditional subjects of Southern California artistic practice the artist photo-graphed an area of the world both known and also viewed globally through a singular event in its history : the Watts Riot of 1965. Performing the type of clinical overlay of the street in the manner of Ed Ruscha and his well-known mapping of the "Sunset Strip" of 1966, "107th Street, Watts" formally mimics Ruscha's piece by shooting every building on 107th Street (the location of the historic Watts Towers) in a photomontage. The book having only one page folded like an accordeon, allows for it to be opened and pulled completely out for an undisturbed viewing from end to end. The book broadens the discourse around the photographic history of Los Angeles and is at the same time a historical record of Watts which for the first time is not limited to representations via the riots of 1965."