This week our job was to find inspiration in the work of the uber-influential photographers of the New Topographics show of the mid-70's. I think the work of these photographers is mind-bending in its celebration of not only the banality of urban and suburban sprawl but in its ability to find beauty in the ignored corners of our "human-altered landscape". I'll let Wikipedia do the heavy-lifting for me here with the added bonus that the information you get might not even be accurate! It really is worth a read, especially if you're at work killing time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Topographics
As always the following images are the ones my non-daft classmates found the most compelling.
And here are a few more I liked but were rejected as sub-par...jealous basta...I mean, astute aesthetes.
1 comment:
Love your more graphic shots, think you have great talent, thanks for sharing
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