By Richard Misrach and Kate Orff, Aperture, $80 Along "Cancer Alley," the 150-mile river corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, a Dow Chemical complex looms over the Holy Rosary Cemetery in the town of Taft, refinery flares light up the night, and antebellum mansions serve as corporate offices for the likes of Shell Chemical. The photographer Richard Misrach began documenting Cancer Alley in 1998, but Petrochemical America, which contains some 50 of his images, is much more than a conventional photo book.
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