Today you will be writing about a photograph by artist Lori Nix. This image is from her series titled The City.
Write 4 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember, refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Before you write, read the artist statement: I consider myself a faux-landscape photographer. I build meticulously detailed model environments and then photograph the results. Through the photographic process, the fictional scene is transformed into a surreal space, where scale, perspective, and the document of the photograph create a tension between the material reality of the scene and the impossibility of the depicted narrative. In this space, between evidence and plot, the imagination of the viewer is unlocked, engaged, and provoked. I want my scenes to convey rich, complex, detailed, and, ultimately, open-ended narratives. Several common themes prevail throughout my work: the constructed photograph, the landscape in turmoil, and danger married to humor. I present these elements as the raw materials of stories with messages, but without conclusions. The photographs I create do not reflect the tradition of the grand idyllic landscape. Rather than showing the beautiful or heroic vista, I look to the darker corners of life. I am interested in the forces of entropy, in the ruins left in the wake of human pretense of grandeur. My scenes are usually devoid of people, and this emptiness becomes an important element. In this way, the impact of civilization is shown by what remains in the absence of humans. Evidence of humans may still be visible, but the cause for their absence is left unclear, allowing the viewer to complete the narrative. In my current series The City, I focus on the ruins of urban landscapes. I have chosen the spaces that celebrate modern culture, knowledge, and innovation: the theater, the museum, and the library. Here the monuments of civilization and material culture are abandoned, in a state of decay and ruin, with natural elements such as plants, insects, and animals beginning to repopulate the spaces. This idea of paradise lost, or the natural world reclaiming itself, becomes more forceful as we face greater environmental challenges in the world around us.
Olivia Iskander
4/20/2017 06:28:12 am
The City by Lori Nix was a recreated scene that she made and photographed with her friend Kathleen Gerber. The image is of a classroom that looks abandoned or ruined. The colors the image is using are bright colors. Although the colors are bright the lighting is dark and gloomy. The objects included in this image are classroom objects.
Alexis Parsons
4/20/2017 06:28:45 am
this photo was taken by Lori six and is part of her collection called The City. the photo is to of a real place, its a diorama. Lori spends up to 7 months making these dioramas. in her collection of The City, the theme of all the photos is post apocalyptic with human absence. Lori works with her partner Kathleen Gerber.
Zachary Perkins
4/20/2017 06:29:52 am
In this image there appears to be a room filled with objects from the human body. This room looks old and moldy, and some of the shelves are broken. The lighting in the room is coming from the windows. There are no people in this image. Each object is a miniature replica of a real object.
Grant Kahl
4/20/2017 06:32:27 am
i find this image really interesting. personally i love the look of ruin and lack of human presence. it looks primitive and reverted back to a natural state. n this specific image it is a classroom but with no students. it is probably a biology room since the room has organs,skulls and human anatomy. along with body parts the classroom is in shambles with wood pieces and broken parts littering the floor. 4/20/2017 06:35:02 am
This image is of a post-apolyptic classroom. There is little spots of color but since the idea is more grim and dark, that ambiance is more present. There is dark shadows and one spotlight brightness in the image. It is more of a classic depiction of a classroom, presumably a science class. The desks, chairs, chalkboard, and grand windows depict a classic classroom thats not present in schools today.
Simon Bruhn
4/20/2017 06:36:25 am
The image by Lori Nix depicts an old, abandoned classroom, probably for anatomy or biology. The attention to detail is very strong, with dust laid out throughout the image, and many small jars and such on the shelves. The image uses the regular color palette, though it does have a lighting gradient from the front of the room to the back. The small diorama uses studio lighting to shoot the image. Otherwise, there is nothing else going on in the room.
Raven
4/20/2017 06:37:40 am
4/20/2017 06:42:04 am
The image is of a small abandoned science classroom. The windows are broken, the walls are falling apart, and then shelves ad desks are disheveled. There are multiple desks with chairs, shelves with fake human body parts, and a white board with a diagram dangling in front of it. The lighting is fabricated to look natural as i it is coming from the sun through the windows. The building appears to fall over any second with parts of the ceiling across the floor, and dust covering almost everything. The colors used in the image are mainly monotone, but with a few exceptions that give the image almost surreal feeling.
Caden Fincke
4/20/2017 06:42:13 am
The image is of a small abandoned science classroom. The windows are broken, the walls are falling apart, and then shelves ad desks are disheveled. There are multiple desks with chairs, shelves with fake human body parts, and a white board with a diagram dangling in front of it. The lighting is fabricated to look natural as i it is coming from the sun through the windows. The building appears to fall over any second with parts of the ceiling across the floor, and dust covering almost everything. The colors used in the image are mainly monotone, but with a few exceptions that give the image almost surreal feeling.
Kyle Meister
4/20/2017 06:43:45 am
This image is of a an abandoned school classroom. In the photograph the classroom itself is cluttered, and unorganized. The walls of the classroom look to be old, feeble, and probably at the point of collapsing in. The cracks and mildue on the wall gave that conclusion. The image looks rather balanced in color. Defiantly the light source of the image is light shining clear through the windows. 4/20/2017 06:44:19 am
This is a photo by the photographer Lori Nix. In this scene, we see an empty and post-apocalyptic classroom. The scene shows dust and dirt covered floors and shelves, empty chairs, broken shelves and windows, and deteriorated walls and ceiling. The shelves are piled high with jars of different body parts and anatomical models/diagrams. There are no humans or animals in the image.
William Oliver
4/20/2017 01:27:04 pm
This photograph by Lori Nix is of an old classroom deteriorating. It seems to once have been a science room from the props that are positioned on the walls. There are chairs scattered all over the floor. The windows are broken. There is a poster of the human eye that is hanging down from the wall. Dust covers the surface of most everything and the ceiling and walls seem to be covered in mold and water damage and are beginning to fall apart. 4/20/2017 06:59:48 pm
Splintered wood, collapsed shelves, and peeling paint lay strewn throughout Lori Nix’s image from her series The City. This image, in particular, revolves around a classroom, enshrouded in dark shadows and dark colors, (notably a science room) simply existing in a state of dilapidation. The building obviously lacks human contact, suggesting, that in the universe of this art series, humans either no longer exist or no longer use the building. This lack of sentient life juxtaposed with a science classroom creates an overwhelming sense of irony. Additionally, the room lies lined with human anatomy, only adding to the irony of the situation: Fundamental pieces of human knowledge and scientific achievement lay gathered in a room, yet no one will ever benefit from the knowledge presented in the room. Comments are closed.
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