How John Moore’s Brilliant US-Mexico Border Photos Also Migrate – Reading The Pictures

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How John Moore’s Brilliant US-Mexico Border Photos Also Migrate – Reading The Pictures

John Moore’s focus is not so much the US-Mexico border itself  but the way the line infiltrates the lives of people in every direction.

via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2018/04/border-photos-john-moore/

Sure, a photograph here or there uses some other framing device, but for the most part Moore’s photographs of the border rely on lines separating here and there, this side and that side, caught and free, shadowed and revealed. It’s an inevitable choice. Moore’s subject is the border, after all.