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• zerohour - Aug 09 2007 | photography, photos, art, consumerism, america

  Quoted: 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.
• lukeslytalker - Jul 26 2007 | art, photography, culture, consumption, photos, artist, imported:7.26.07

  Exploring around our country’s shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress.
• zerohour - Jul 13 2007 | photography, art

  Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of Mass Consumption

  beautiful photos like thousands of cell phones
• narisa - May 16 2007 | photography, photos, photographer, portrait, portfolio

  Amazing photographic fine art depicting America's mass consumption and Katrina 'still' shots.
• petersigrist - Mar 06 2007 | photography, art, statistics, communication, seattle, exhibits

  This Seattle artist uses images to represent statistics such as the number of dollars the U.S. government spends every hour in Iraq.

  Quoted: 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.
• tim.slager - Jan 26 2007

  Running the numbers is especially fascinating

  • shnnnslg - Jan 28 2007
    

    I found Running the Numbers to be really fascinating as well. But I also felt that In Katrina's Wake gives you a good idea of all the destruction.
• chris - Oct 31 2005 | photography, environment

  This is pretty awesome, and inspiring, until you read this guy's statement and listen to the quote at the bottom:

  "Prints of these images are large in scale, averaging 44x60”. I make my prints in my Seattle studio, using the Epson Ultrachrome archival pigmented inkjet process. Print editions are limited to nine."

  Its like, is he fighting fire with fire, or just trying to make a buck like everyone else? This kind of thing reeks of "organic" marketing.
• derek - Oct 31 2005 | seattle, art, photography, waste, consumerism

  Some very interesting photographs of ... well, all the crap we throw away. Many of the photographs are local (Seattle area).
• derek2 - Oct 31 2005 | imported_from_blue_dot, seattle, art, photography, waste, consumerism, imported:del.icio.us

  Some very interesting photographs of ... well, all the crap we throw away. Many of the photographs are local (Seattle area).
• ario - Jun 24 2005 | photography, favorites, seattle, imported:del.icio.us

  amazing shots of consumption... lots of which are from the Northwest
• Reckon - Aug 20 2007 | photography, art
• chromesplitpixel - Jun 05 2007 | photography
• stupidfake - Feb 16 2007 | art
• jujube - Jun 08 2006 | katrina, disaster, garbage, photography, art, artist, waste, sustainable, imported:del.icio.us
• david.peacock - Oct 26 2005 | photography
• postzavtra - Oct 26 2005 | photography, webdev, images, imported:del.icio.us