Archive iii.
Interior Peripheries & The Urban Archive / Periferias interiores y el archivo urbano
2015 — 2016
Meditations on Street Ethnography
Meditaciones sobre la etnografía callejera
“For two years, I traveled ‘round and ‘round the United States, solely by Amtrak Train and Greyhound Bus. From one inner city to the next, I was in search of that complete soul, that common soul, and that unusual soul, who had archetypically mistaken the forest for the trees, or rather the city for the streets, so to speak, somewhere along the long haul toward the great American Dream.”
“Durante dos años, viajé sin cesar por Estados Unidos, únicamente en tren Amtrak y autobús Greyhound. De una ciudad a otra, buscaba esa alma completa, esa alma común, esa alma singular, que, como suele suceder, había confundido el bosque con los árboles, o mejor dicho, la ciudad con las calles, por así decirlo, en algún punto del largo camino hacia el gran sueño americano.”
Down These Mean Streets, No. 01 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets / Por estas calles peligrosas
2015 — 2016
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man, and a common man, and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. He will take no man’s money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man, and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. The story is this man’s adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in.
—Raymond Chandler
“Por estas calles sórdidas debe transitar un hombre que no sea sórdido, que no esté manchado ni temado. Él es el héroe; él lo es todo. Debe ser un hombre íntegro, un hombre común, y a la vez un hombre excepcional. Debe ser, para usar una expresión algo manida, un hombre de honor: por instinto, por inevitabilidad, sin pensarlo, y ciertamente sin decirlo. Debe ser el mejor hombre de su mundo y un hombre suficientemente bueno para cualquier mundo. No aceptará el dinero de nadie con deshonestidad ni la insolencia de nadie sin una justa y desapasionada venganza. Es un hombre solitario, y su orgullo reside en que lo trates como a un hombre orgulloso o que lamentes haberlo conocido. La historia es la aventura de este hombre en busca de una verdad oculta, y no sería aventura si no le ocurriera a un hombre apto para la aventura. Si hubiera suficientes como él, el mundo sería un lugar muy seguro para vivir, sin llegar a ser demasiado aburrido como para dejar de valer la pena.”
—Raymond Chandler
Down These Mean Streets, No. 02 (Tampa), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 03 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 04 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 05 (San Francisco), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 06 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 07 (Memphis), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 08 (Chicago), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 09 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 10 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 11 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 12 (NYC), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 13 (Chicago), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 14 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 15 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 16 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 17 (NYC), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 18 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 19 (Tampa), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 20 (San Francisco), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 21 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 22 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 23 (NOLA), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
Down These Mean Streets, No. 24 (AMTRAK), 2015. Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 15.
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