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.
Eddie Garcia
4/20/2017 08:40:04 am
This is an image of a worn out shoe store that is abandoned. You can tell its abandoned by the way stuff is messily strewn across the floor. The Image Uses dark worn out colors to signify that the place is abandoned. There are no people in the image just shoes and shelves. The lighting in the exposure is studio set up
Nick Perez
4/20/2017 08:43:10 am
This composition by Lori Nix is a meticulously crafted work of art that conveys both meaning and beauty. The image is of a dilapidated shoe store. There is a tree coming through the window, and shoe boxes scattered throughout the story. The shelves are falling down and look to be in ruin. The colors of the store have faded and the colors on the shoe box look washed out and grey. The image not only has content that is eye catching, but also uses great composition and form.
Mouna Al-Hakeem
4/20/2017 08:45:00 am
This image is of a shoe store that is in ruins. it is using natural lighting. It is using dark colors. The walls are broken down and destroyed. Many of the shoes have been destroyed.
Sarah Marshall
4/20/2017 08:48:07 am
This image is of a sports store. The store includes jackets and shoes, and it is displayed in a post - apocalyptic world. The artist uses dark shadows and the colors are dull. The artist does this to add this mysterious effect and to show that there was disaster in the photo. The lighting is a studio set up but it is set up to look like natural light.
This image depicts an old and run down shoe store. This store seems to have been abandoned for quite some time now. The odd detail about this store is that the clothing and shoes are still present on the shelves. This is odd due to the fact that this store would have been looted and all the items and accessories would be gone. The image later reveals that all of humanity has disappeared suddenly.
CRITICAL ANALYSIS CONTINUED: 4/20/2017 08:51:40 am
This image is of a destroyed shoe store. It is using a variety of colors for all the different shoes. The lighting is a spot light cast by the photographer. The image includes shoes on a wall and the floor. The image is of a post apocalyptic time where humans are gone.
Harrison Fentress
4/20/2017 08:52:31 am
This is an image of an abandoned sport shoe store. It is using bright colors for the shoes but grey for the walls and floor with bright lights overhead. The lighting is studio set-up. There is a hole in the back wall that shows the front of another building. There is no action in the photo.
Stow Neilson
4/20/2017 08:53:47 am
This image is of an abandoned shoe store. In the background you can see a tree has broken down the walls and is growing into the store. The lighting is bright. It uses bright studio lighting. There are no people visible in the image since it is abandoned.
Roman Ruiz
4/20/2017 08:54:22 am
This image is a hand made setting of a post apocalyptic shoe store. This shoe store looks like it has gone through a lot. The colors are vibrant because of the shoes, but the more you look at the image the less color you see because of the chaos in the middle of the store.The image has dark shadows inside, but has high light outside.
Bo Yin
4/20/2017 08:55:23 am
This is a photo of a shoe store. The wall is broken and there is a hole in it. The whole place is dirty and messy. The shoes and the boxes are everywhere. From the artist, we can know that she is focusing on the ruins of urban landscapes.
Peyton Nebens
4/20/2017 07:04:27 pm
This image is of a shoe shop that Eddie Garcia has made. Eddie Garcia is an amazing photographer and the image is of a deserted shoe shop. The lighting is a studio set up lighting but looks very natural. The objects included in this image are the shoes on display the messed up shoe store where the shoe and boxes are all over the place and the wall is open to the outside.
Daniel Herrera
4/20/2017 07:32:55 pm
In this image the miniature structure is showing mini shoes and other miniature things like, cloth, and benches. This image is using dark shadows with vibrant colors. This image is based on a post apocalyptic world. I think the exposure of this image is set right on point. The image still manages to contain details and information even in the dark spots. But isn't too bright either which gives it a very dramatic feeling. This image is definitely color corrected. The image is made to seem more vibrant and dark than it actually is. Due to the photos miniature structure, the resolution would depend a lot on the kind of micro lens which is being used. But, I do think that the image is at good resolution.
Will Thompson
4/20/2017 09:59:37 pm
This image makes yo look at the detail. The fact this was built from scratch makes you want to find the fake. It is very realistic so that made be more difficult. Every little thing is placed that way for a reason and it is to catch your eyes.
Karina Samuel
4/21/2017 09:28:26 pm
This image by artist Lori Nix is from one of series called "The City”. The right side of the image looks like a shoe store with the multiple shelves of a variety of shoes. But, their is cardboard boxes of all sorts to be scattered, ripped, and busted on the concrete floor. In the back, their seems to be a wallpaper background of a building with windows. Hanging from the ceiling are fluorescent lights lighting the room. Comments are closed.
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