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Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border
With every effort to be an all-encompassing document of the subject of immigration along our southern border, Undocumented features: essays and photos from Central America and Mexico; The Journey North; The Border; Securing the Frontier; Life in a Divided Nation; Detained and Deported. Undocumented also features several portrait series, including undocumented migrants, prisoners in immigration jails, and new American citizens.
Since 2010 Getty Images special correspondent John Moore has been laser-focused on the issue of immigration to the United States. He is unmatched in the field for his comprehensive photography of undocumented immigration and the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. This complex, multi-layered, and amazingly controversial narrative has taken Moore from Central America through Mexico, along every mile of the U.S. southern border, the northern border and immigrant communities in between. Moore’s exclusive access to immigrants on all points of their journey, ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, the USCIS and dozens of NGOs here and abroad sets his photographs apart from all other work on the controversial subject.
Moore’s most recent work includes detentions and increased deportations under the Trump Administration and the resulting widespread fear in the immigrant community in the United States. For its broad scope, compassionate telling and rigorous point of view, this body of work is the essential record on this dominant US domestic topic.
Since 2010 Getty Images special correspondent John Moore has been laser-focused on the issue of immigration to the United States. He is unmatched in the field for his comprehensive photography of undocumented immigration and the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. This complex, multi-layered, and amazingly controversial narrative has taken Moore from Central America through Mexico, along every mile of the U.S. southern border, the northern border and immigrant communities in between. Moore’s exclusive access to immigrants on all points of their journey, ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, the USCIS and dozens of NGOs here and abroad sets his photographs apart from all other work on the controversial subject.
Moore’s most recent work includes detentions and increased deportations under the Trump Administration and the resulting widespread fear in the immigrant community in the United States. For its broad scope, compassionate telling and rigorous point of view, this body of work is the essential record on this dominant US domestic topic.
192 pages, Hardcover
Published March 27, 2018
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Other authors publishing under this name are:
John Moore, US SF & fantasy writer
John Moore, languages
John Moore, British author and pioneer conservationist
John Moore
John Moore, Scottish physician and writer
John Moore, English clergyman of Puritan views
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August 24, 2018
Moore traveled with and photographed migrants and those involved with border patrol. He did the famous photo of the little girl crying when her mother was told by border control to put her down during a search. The book also has very short essays at the beginning of each chapter by Moore and others. I wish this could be required reading for everyone. He did an excellent job of putting human faces on complicated issues.
July 11, 2019
If you've seen this iconic picture, which came to symbolize the Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance" immigration policy,
...then you know John Moore's work. Moore is a Getty Images photographer who covers the ongoing immigration crisis along the U.S-Mexico border. His book, Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border, is a record of U.S immigration and border security. Moore uses photography to provide extensive coverage of the topic including: the push factors that cause people to flee their countries, the perilous journey north, the federal government's response which includes the militarization of the border, ICE raids and deportations, and the lives of undocumented families in an increasingly divided America. The book then concludes on a hopeful note with a naturalization ceremony, often an end goal for immigrants coming to America.
Moore is clearly a skilled photographer whose photographs capture the agony and trauma of the migrant experience. He works to put a human face to a complex issue and in doing so helps us understand the phenomenon of undocumented immigration and why it happens. The images that Moore captured were haunting and powerful and left me wondering about the people behind the pictures, namely where they are today. Yet through it all, Moore remains objective in his storytelling, which is important so that the pictures themselves tell the story. This is one of those books that you can come back to time and again to gain new insights.
If there is one book that you read this year, let it be this one.
For additional photographs by John Moore, check out: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/201...
...then you know John Moore's work. Moore is a Getty Images photographer who covers the ongoing immigration crisis along the U.S-Mexico border. His book, Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border, is a record of U.S immigration and border security. Moore uses photography to provide extensive coverage of the topic including: the push factors that cause people to flee their countries, the perilous journey north, the federal government's response which includes the militarization of the border, ICE raids and deportations, and the lives of undocumented families in an increasingly divided America. The book then concludes on a hopeful note with a naturalization ceremony, often an end goal for immigrants coming to America.
Moore is clearly a skilled photographer whose photographs capture the agony and trauma of the migrant experience. He works to put a human face to a complex issue and in doing so helps us understand the phenomenon of undocumented immigration and why it happens. The images that Moore captured were haunting and powerful and left me wondering about the people behind the pictures, namely where they are today. Yet through it all, Moore remains objective in his storytelling, which is important so that the pictures themselves tell the story. This is one of those books that you can come back to time and again to gain new insights.
If there is one book that you read this year, let it be this one.
For additional photographs by John Moore, check out: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/201...
May 19, 2019
Beautiful pictures and great reporting on the different aspects of immigration. Worthy read.
May 3, 2018
This pictorial is stunning and bittersweet. Living in s border state, Arizona, made it even more personal to me. Combined with the current administration I fear for the treatment of those seeking refuge and asylum within the United States. The power and beauty of John Moore’s photos is breathtaking.
May 7, 2018
May Day. All the ways of the world. All of the bodies.
September 14, 2018
excellent
May 24, 2020
Every American should read this book.
August 15, 2019
This book is an excellent way to quickly become familiar with the issues that propel immigration along the US southern border. It is broad in its photographic scope and provides a point of departure for those wishing to further explore this topic. All perspectives are consider: the human with its life and death implications, the economic, the demagogic, the hazards of the journey, the reality of fence construction and its impact on US residents along the border.
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