With the support of a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship in 1997 and drawing inspiration from the pulp comic of the same name, Tierra Brava traverses a personal psychological space within the color of a place mired in contradictions; the U.S. – Mexico border. It is a place that is in a constant search for its own sense of identity, juggling the traditions of culture and history of the interior with the pleasures and promises of prosperity and a better life of its northern neighbor. It is not Mexico and not the United States, but rather something and somewhere in-between.
Tierra Brava has been structured and printed to reflect the sensibilities of the Mexican FM-3 Visa with tipped-in photographs and ephemeral items, including a missing-person’s flier, a half-completed marriage license, advertisement for lucha libre wrestling matches, a 3-page hand-written note, and a folded map of the Northern Mexico border that is numbered to correspond to the book’s imagery.
49 – 4 x 6 inch chromogenic prints tipped-in
1 loose 4 x 6 inch chromogenic print
10-1/2 x 14-1/2 inch folded map
5 x 7 inch photographic print in a folder
Spanish and English
Edition: 50 + AP Copies