VII Interactive Book Club. “Lines and Lineage” by Tomas van Houtryve

May 3, 2020
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This live event is on May 3, 2020 at 18:00 CET/12:00 EDT.

Join us for a book club meeting with Tomas van Houtryve as he discusses his book, Lines and Lineage, where he takes aim at America’s collective amnesia of history.

The work addresses the missing photographic record of the period when Mexico ruled what we now know as the American West. To visualize the people and places from the remarkable yet unseen Mexican era, van Houtryve chose to photograph the region with glass plates and a 19th-century wooden camera. His portraits of direct descendants of early inhabitants of the West—mestizo, Afro-Latin, indigenous, Crypto-Jewish—are paired in diptychs with photographs of landscapes along the original border and architecture from the Mexican period. Lines and Lineage also includes historic maps and essays.

This book lifts the pervasive fog of dominant Western mythology and makes us question the role that photographs—both present and missing—have played in shaping the identity of the West. Lines and Lineage was awarded France’s prestigious Roger Pic Prize and was selected as a finalist for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. It was published as a monograph by Radius Books in autumn 2019.

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