A decade later business began plummeting as the art market collapsed and galleries stopped documenting artists' portfolios.
"Impressionists by the Sea," paintings documenting artists' fascination in the 19th century with the Normandy coast.
One video documents artists and volunteers joining forces to construct a shimmering mural made of reflective glass, a radiant symbol of the Mexicali community's efforts to let in the light.
During those years they had a gallery in Amsterdam named Art & Project, so in addition to publishing and documenting artists' projects, the bulletin often announced the gallery's exhibitions.
And when everyone and everything was jammed together in one place, you couldn't tell art from documents, artists from curators, artists from writers, writers from editors, writers or editors or artists from activists, galleries from zines, zines from Web sites, or people who were there from people who weren't.
The photographer Stefan Falke has been documenting artists in the region since 2008 in an project titled "La Frontera: Artists Along the U.S.-Mexico Border". Having grown up in a divided Germany, Mr. Falke said, he was suspicious about the mainstream portrayal of the border area as a dangerous place without much to offer.
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Photographer Stefan Falke's project La Frontera documents artists who live and work close to the Mexican border with the United States in what used to be some of the world's most dangerous cities.
She's the most celebrated street art photographer, and has documented artists and their work from the early days of kids tagging subway cars under cover of darkness, to today, when street art superstars jet around the world to paint permission walls.
Two slides documenting artist installation.
