Overview

These are the dunes of Edward Weston's iconic photos; of Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 buried movie set for The Ten Commandments; of the Dunites - the artists, poets, nudists, and mystics who lived in dune shacks from the 1920s to the 40s - hosts to Weston during shooting trips; and fundamentally, of the native Chumash. These dunes now host a landscape of ATVs, inciting a decade-long legal battle with nearby residents over air quality. Lana Z Caplan attended Air Pollution Control District hearings, met with historians, scoured archives, and collaborated with yak tityu tityu yak tilhini Northern Chumash tribal leadership to excavate these histories in images. Ultimately, Oceano questions the legacies of colonisation, photographic history, utopian ideology, and the fuure for the politically charged and environmentally threatened Oceano Dunes. The subtitle for the book for seven generations comes from a phrase used by Lorie Lathrop-Laguna, ytt Northern Chumash Tribe, in a phone conversation with Caplan - 'Our decisions are made while thinking seven generations into the future'. The Seventh Generation Principle is believed to date back to the twelfth century Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Full Product Details

9783969001233

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Based in social practice, historical research, and a desire to unearth the unseen, photographer and filmmaker Lana Z Caplan's works are often inspired by sub-cultural notions of utopia - where one person's utopia is another's undoing. Parts of her current project based in the Oceano Dunes have been in solo and group exhibitions including the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego and Gallery NAGA (Boston). Highlights of her international exhibition record include Museum of Contemporary Art (Tucson), Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing), National Gallery of Art (Puerto Rico), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City). Her work has been reviewed and featured in publications such as ARTnews, Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic.com, Lenscratch.com and The Boston Globe. She is the recipient of several grants including from Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Puffin Foundation, and the Film/Video Studio Program Fellowship at the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH). Caplan earned her BA and BS from Boston University, her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. After many years in Brooklyn and Boston, Caplan relocated to California and is currently an Associate Professor of Photography and Video at Cal Poly, in San Luis Obispo.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available