The Transportation of Place

Andrea Robbins (born 1963 in Boston) and Max Becher (born 1964in Düsseldorf) draw on a rich visual vocabulary gleaned as much from travel brochures, postcards, and National Geographic as from the photography of Walker Evans, Edward Curtis, and Stephen Shore. In doing so, Robbins and Becher produce work that functions as surreal nonfiction, using documentary images to examine contradictions of place and cultural identity.

"Robbins and Becher's choice of subjects is brilliant, edifying, and always unexpected... They seek out the visually varied symptoms of disruption and dislocation, exposing the bizarre manifestations of colonialism and its post-colonial counterpart - global tourism." Lucy Lippard