Border Patrol Agents Toss Out Migrants' Most Intimate Items. This Janitor Turns Them Into Art.
Dec 4, 2019At first glance, Tom Kiefer seems to be a documentarian of the mundane. His collection at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles includes carefully curated photographs of used combs, empty canteens wrapped in denim, and dusty black shoelaces coiled together like snakes inBut his work actually offers an intimate portrait of contemporary life along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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