Today you will be writing about a photograph by artist Lori Nix. This image is from her series titled The City.
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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.
Ryan Kyle
2/9/2018 11:53:31 am
This image is of a laundromat in a post-apocalyptic world with no humans. The image uses a lot of grey and beige in order to convey the post apocalyptic feeling. The lighting is very dark and gloomy inside of the laundromat. The objects in the image are a bunch of washing machines and baskets that have been tossed all over the floor. Nothing is really happening in the laundromat because it is post-apocalyptic and nobody is there.
Mikaela Mumme
2/9/2018 11:55:42 am
This image is of a public laundromat that has been abandoned. There are lots of little things in the image that add to its detail such as the clutter on the ground. This image also has great detail in the background making the setting the city. The image uses warm colors which helps set the time of day. The lighting is very diffuse and it gives the image a good quality of light.
This photo is from the artist Nix and it is of an old laundry at but after an apocalyptic stage. The artists clearly took lots of time for the art tone made. This is made in dark shadows because of the lack of light in the laundry mat. Theres lots of bad chairs in the room and it does effect the image in lots of ways. Nothing really is happening in the image but showing the laundry mat after the apocalypse.
Larissa Esparza
2/9/2018 11:56:40 am
This image is taken by Lori Nix. Lori Nix doesn’t go out and take images of things but build the things to take pictures of. The point of this series is to make humans aware of what could happen if we continue treating the world like we do. If we mistreat this planet then bad things could come out of it and she shouse us we it would look like afterwards. This image captures an empty machine laundromat that has been run down.
Troy Rollwitz
2/9/2018 11:57:16 am
This image is of a laundry mat. There are laundry machines on both sides, and in the back there are windows. Behind the windows there is a city. It uses a lot of colors, and there is no main one. The lighting comes from the windows in the back, and a light on the ceiling. The image is mostly dark except for a couple of places.
Maria Tirado
2/9/2018 11:57:28 am
This image is of a laundromat, much like the kind of laundry rooms that are used in colleges. This image is different than any typical laundromats because this one is supposed to look like a modern room in post-apocalypse time. That is why Lori Nix chose a bright color palette to represent the original modern place, and dark neutral sort of dead colors to make the place seem old and abandoned. The lighting is pretty dark inside the room, to represent how there are no longer any humans occupying the electricity, but there is bright light outside. The objects included in this image are washing machines, clothes baskets, soap and detergent, and lots of plants.
Larissa Esparza
2/9/2018 11:58:28 am
This image is taken by Lori Nix. Lori Nix doesn’t go out and take images of things but build the things to take pictures of. The point of this series is to make humans aware of what could happen if we continue treating the world like we do. If we mistreat this planet then bad things could come out of it and she shouse us we it would look like afterwards. This image captures an empty machine laundromat that has been run down.
Marissa Elizondo
2/9/2018 12:30:51 pm
This image is about a empty laundromat. You can see laundry machines and dryers. You can also see chairs and old baskets and a cactus in the back. The colors scheme in this picture is actually really colorful. The are lots of reds, blues, and yellows. The lighting however is sort of dark which gives the image a spooky vibe. This picture is using artificial lighting because this image was constructed entirely by Lori Nix.
Jessica Mims
2/10/2018 02:58:02 pm
This is an image by Lori Nix. The photo is of an abandoned laundromat. On both sides of the image, laundry machines are lined against the walls, and at the center of the image, we see a door and a window. The inside of the laundromat is messy and appears to be damaged. There are a lot of colors in this image, but they all have a tint over them to emphasize the state of decay that is occurring.
Zach Burgos
2/11/2018 06:26:09 pm
The image is a laundromat store in a post-apocalyptic setting. The store looks broken down with all of its insides scattered and rusted. The colors the image is using are grey, green, brown, and red. The lighting is studio set-up. There aren’t any people in this image because it is a post-apocalyptic setting.
Kate Madison
2/11/2018 07:33:31 pm
This image is of an abandoned Laundromat. This image is using darker colors to make things appear to be more worn out than they actually are. The lighting in this image looks like it has many shadows because of the lack of light within the building. There are many items within this image including washing machines, dryers, laundry baskets on wheels, seats, and cleaning detergent laying on the ground. In this image I think that there was a nuclear war that wiped out the human race for centuries, however some cities and buildings are still intact and animals have began repopulating and entering the cities.
Marynez Cantu Cardenas
2/13/2018 07:15:55 am
This is a photograph taken by Lori Nix, she mentions that she sets up meticulously detailed modeled environments and then she would eventually photograph how the set came out to be. She also mentions that she focuses on the ruins of urban landscapes, I think that she did an amazing job at capturing this moment. There is many times when we don’t even realize that there are still parts of town in which there is not as many resources or some people just don’t have the same opportunities that we do and I think that when Lori Nix photographed this it opened people’s eyes and basically told them that yes this is going on and you didn’t even know it.
Josh salehi
2/15/2018 09:15:58 pm
This image is in a laundry place in the apocalypse era. There is a lot of thing laying on the floor and it adds a lot of different details to the picture.The image is shot in high aperture and it has warm colors and looks really good and tells the story with details. Comments are closed.
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