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04/18/2007 09:19:14 AM · #1 |
Running the Numbers
Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is still in its early stages, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.
~cj, January 2007
Taken from the site. |
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04/18/2007 09:24:47 AM · #2 |
wow. i'd love to see these. fascinating, and alarming.
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04/18/2007 02:35:47 PM · #3 |
| Just a lil bump for the afternoon crew. It really is some amazing photos. I love the jets one! |
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04/18/2007 02:36:56 PM · #4 |
Coincidence, I was looking at his photos/website the other day. Very interesting.
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04/18/2007 02:40:13 PM · #5 |
| the replacement of denali wtih denial was interesting |
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04/18/2007 02:42:10 PM · #6 |
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04/18/2007 03:56:52 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by bex85:
Just a lil bump for the afternoon crew. It really is some amazing photos. I love the jets one! |
Compare to this snapshot of actual contrails over the Midwest USA, taken last November (2006). |
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04/18/2007 04:33:46 PM · #8 |
| I'd have to choose the Cans Suerat as my favorite...although the idea of such continuous waste is kinda sickening. |
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04/24/2007 12:59:07 PM · #9 |
Very cool stuff. I emailed these to my wife, who wanted to know if she could see them in real life. She went to his website and found out that her aunt in Seattle has worked with this photographer. She did the graphic design/layout for "In Katrina's Wake". Small world...
Scott |
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