Kehrer Publishing publishes Oceano (for seven generations)a book by Lana Z Caplan.
These are the dunes of Edward Weston’s iconic photos, of Cecil B. DeMille’s buried 1923 film set for The Ten Commandments, of the Dunites – artists, poets, nudists and mystics who lived in cabins on the dunes between the 1920s and 1940s – which hosted Weston on his travels to photograph, and basically, Chumash natives. These dunes are now home to a landscape of off-road vehicles, leading to a decade-long legal battle with nearby residents over air quality. Lana Z Caplan attended Air Pollution Control District hearings, met with historians, combed through archives, and collaborated with Northern Chumash tribal leaders to chronicle these stories in pictures. Ultimately, Oceano questions the legacies of colonization, the history of photography, utopian ideology, and the future of the politically charged and environmentally threatened Oceano Dunes.
Lana Z Caplan : Oceano (for seven generations)
Published by Kehrer Verlag
Texts by Lana Z Caplan, Matthew Goldman, Hanna Rose Shell and Mona Olivas Tucker
Hardcover | 30 x 24 cm | 128 pages | $55
ISBN : 978-3-96900-123-3
www.kehrerverlag.com
