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Sanctus Sonorensis / Philip Zimmermann
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FA.B82.1245
[90] p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 11 x 8.3 in (28 x 21 cm)
2009
Offset printed board-book, foil-stamped title, gilded page edges. Edition of 1000.
"As I was traveling through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument just inside Arizona, I was stopped for a couple of hours by several groups of men each consisting of a large number of heavily armed Border Patrol agents on some sort of special operations. They eventually lead out of the desert scrub a large number of illegal immigrants that had been hiding in the mesquite and cactus as they attempted to head north through the park...
Sanctus Sonorensis was a work that eventually came out of this experience. The edge gilding mimics breviaries. The book attempts to show the dawn to dusk progression of big skies below which immigrants trudge, driven by economic desperation." - from http://23sandy.com