Detention Cell 3 (with Serape), NM, 2007. Photograph © David Taylor.
Border Monument # 184, 2010. Photograph © David Taylor.
US/Mexico Border Near El Paso/Juarez, 2007. Photograph © David Taylor.
Borders are simultaneously historical, geographical, political, cultural in complex and arbitrary ways. That much is a truism. These three images are from a new book Working the Line by photographer David Taylor. The border monument is one among nearly 300, erected in the late 19th Century, that Taylor has photographed. Taylor lives and teaches in Las Cruces, New Mexico but has photographed the border from Texas through California. This is good work.